Seafood Festival, September 9, 2017

Today, Saturday, started out with breakfast and then Tom cleaned off the love bug residue on the wind shield and motorhome front.  Those bugs create quite a mess on things as they splat on the vehicles going down a road.  Around noontime we went to the Biloxi Seafood Festival.  The usual tents with craft type wares were set up but then there was a food area- all outside dining mostly in a standing position.  We checked out the food and saw plates of food that cost $16- $45 and decided that we would rather eat somewhere else that would be an air-condition, sit down in comfort and less expensive.  Most of the food was fried and served with French fries, food that I try to avoid.  We drove over to Ocean Springs, a neighboring town and ate at McElroy's restaurant.  Tom had a meal of oysters and scallops, grilled along with cole slaw and baked potato.  I had Bayou Special which was a fillet of snapper with crab on top, grilled accompanied by cole slaw and broccoli.  Very good food and much less in cost than the festival fare and we were able to sit in an AC dining room.  We did walk around the shopping area of Ocean Springs and only bought some licorice.  It has been very windy today with bright sunshine.  Hurricane Irma is expected to hit the Florida Keys by tomorrow morning and looks to be leaning toward the western side of Florida and the Tampa area as it advances north but most of Florida will be effected.  We are feeling good about our decision to move away from the area and continue to hope and pray our house will not have any damage.