Woke up this morning and went over to the Jefferson Davis house in Biloxi, MS called Beauvoir, which means Beautiful View and it sure was. Jefferson Davis is the President of the Confederate States of America. When the civil war was over, the confederate soldiers were allowed to become citizens of the United States with the exception of him. Once he and his daughter died, his wife sold the property to the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans for use as a home for the veterans and their widows. Once all of the veterans and widows passed away, it was to be used as a memorial to Jefferson Davis. It contains the Presidential Library and museum, a Confederate cemetery and several buildings. It was heavily damaged during Hurricane Katrina and they are having to rebuild the library and some of the other buildings. We toured the main house. What a neat place. When you walk in you can see their entertaining rooms, bedrooms and dining rooms. There were 2 dining rooms, one for the adults and one for the children. The rooms that they entertain in had rounded ceilings and walls... I had never seen that before. Also, when you look in their bedrooms, and they did have separate bedrooms, their "bathtubs" were no bigger than a washtub.
When we finished touring Beauvoir, we packed up the trailer and headed to Foley, AL. We had a very uneventful trip. We are staying at Anchors Aweigh RV Park. The have a restaurant here called Lambert's where apparently they throw rolls at you... I will keep you posted on that when we go there. They also have a Krystal's... for anyone who doesn't know what Krystal is, think sliders and White Castle... now you know what Krystal is. Delbert was so excited that he absolutely had to have some today when we got here. We got the trailer all set up and Delbert sat in the jacuzzi.
Once he was all nice and wrinkled, he got out and we took off for a ride for dinner. It was already getting dark but he apparently had a mission on his mind. We drove to Florida for dinner...wasn't far.... 10-15 miles or so. We ate at a place called the Shrimp Basket... great food. On our way back, we stopped by his brothers RV and then we all went to another place to sit and chit chat.
Home now and exhausted... Loosing an hour sleep tonight... Heading to Battlefield Park back in Mobile tomorrow and down into Gulf Shores. Check back to read all about that. Also, I will upload some pictures once I bring my camera in from the car.
You can view videos at Delbert's Videos on YouTube.
Gotta run.....
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