Day 7

Day 7
The day was pretty much rainy and ugly, We woke up to very heavy rain,  Curtis saw a massive storm on his phone weather app hoovering right over us.  After the rain briefly stopped, it was still pretty windy and ugly. We did walk across the street to check out the beach and the Ramada Hotel pool.  The beach was at a red Flag day.  Which meant not safe to play in the water.  We mostly just looked at the sand and water.

The Ramada pool is significant because back in the day, Curtis and his missionary buddies snuck into that pool in the night and jumped off.  They had a big man made rock cliff that they climbed up and jumped into the pool in the middle of the night.  After seeing the whole set up, I'm thinking it wasn't a wise choice  since they jumped into the shallow end of the pool. It was just an ugly windy, rainy day so we went back and spent most the day in the RV, although the Destin West RV park was pretty nice.  It was well landscaped and very tidy.  Later in the day we downloaded the game of life onto a tablet and started playing that.  We were having a good time.

We went over to the Restaurant near our RV Park "FUDPUCKERS" This had been around since Curtis' previous FL life, and he took Dax there a few years ago when they took a trip here.  Dax was able to hold an alligator, it was a baby with it's mouth taped shut.

They didn't have Alligators to hold that day, but we did have some Alligator for lunch.  It was deep friend and tasted like Chicken, just a little chewy. We liked it. 

 Curtis was regularly checking the weather on his phone.  It was a massive storm, and he wanted to see when the weather would clear so we could eventually go to the beach. While this is all happening the rain is coming down extremely heavy.  The last time I saw this much rain was when I lived in Hawaii and it flooded the town.  I highly suspected there was going to be flooding with that much heavy rain coming down without any let up.  We were almost finished with the game of Life when the phone is telling us that there is a tornado warning for Okaloosa county, People in RV's or mobile homes to seek shelter in a secure building.  We thought about it for about a minute and decided we would rather be safe than sorry.  We made a mad dash to gather a few things up, disconnect the RV from the hookups, secure everything in the RV and headed across the street. So we headed over to the Ramada Inn and checked in.  The kids were pretty freaked out over the tornado warning.  We did have a beautiful ocean view room.  Too bad it was such a windy ugly night.  Curtis tried to go out and watch the storm for a minute, but it was too ugly he came right back in.

We eventually went to bed and it was a wild night.  There was some woman making noise in the hall about 1:00 a.m..Curtis went out to see what it was about since we didn't know if we were having a true emergency.  Anyway it was just odd and she was looking for someone in the Military??? She asked Curtis if he was in the military?

The storm continued to worsen and kept waking us up most throughout the night.  There was thunder and lightening right on top of us and the rain pounded and the wind howled.  I knew at that point that the thunder and lightning crashing on top of us that we made the right decision to leave the RV pack and check in the hotel.