There's a restaurant that's very touristy in Gulf Shores (The Hangout) but we love it! This year they had pirate & princess breakfast for the kids. The kids got geared up in their most piratey outfits, and then got eye patches and bandanas when we got there. Savannah even brought her stuffed parrot!
As we waited for breakfast (an all you can eat platter of eggs, sausage, bacon, grits, biscuits, beignets, and homefries - yum -- it feeds us for days!) the pirates and princesses came by. They loved this guy - he was very silly and was armed with lots of pirate jokes.
During breakfast, they announced that there was a pirate treasure hunt happening. So, we did what any good pirates would do - we abandoned breakfast and went with them.
The pirates led them around looking for clues
And they eventually found pirate treasure and got some goodies (gold coins, jewelry, etc.). When we got back to our table, we had a whole new breakfast -- apparently some crazy seagulls flew in and attacked our breakfast, so they whipped up a new one for us. After breakfast we went outside and played in the giant sandpile -- yes, that little spot is Gage at the top left.
And, we scrounged for gems too. They have a gem mining thing you can pay for later in the day, but we figure why pay when we can just scrounge around for leftovers in the trough and in the sand just next to it. The kids found two big handfuls of colorful gems - yes, we are cheap ;-)
Gage found shade and parked it. He just gets too hot in this southern sun.
