Long Beach Ms 11-06-10

It's a sunny and beautiful Sat 'morning..a bit cool last night but great for sleeping, didn't blink an eye 'til after 8AM..We went exploring the area yesterday afternoon, checked out Gulfport. It's a small city and not much happening except a great beach area and the oceansine road, Hwy 90, has some local artist's great carvings on the boulevard carved out of the trees that were destroyed by hurricanes. They're really quite large and are depictions of whales, dolphins and pelicans. Quite an accomplishment and very eyecatching. Then we cruised back West to Bay St Louis and stopped at the Hollywood Casino and ate lunch at their buffet. YUMMEEE!! I even get the SENIOR discount and the total bill with drinks et all was $16..of course we couldn't leave without testing our luck on the gambling floor :) Walked outa there with +$300 !!! We really like that place, it's where we had such good luck last year..gonna stopover there next Wed and stay in their CG & use thier money to pay for it :)..We built up some comps too so we'll get a discount too. We are gonna fish in this parks lake today and see if we can't have some bass for dinner. When we got back last nite we saw that someone had been bonfireing during the day and the coals were still hot so I wandered over and they have a big pile of firewood so I started loading up the firepit and before you could say Alakazam there was a Hooter Brown Bonfire going. attracked another camper's attention and "Mike" joined us. He's from Wyoming and a newbee. As luck would have it he's just been thru New Mexico & Texas and filled us in on some good Camps they found on their travels so we swapped stories and enjoyed the warmth of the fire..Sure makes the libations taste good !! We'll probably drive over to Biloxi tomorrow or Mon and hit the Hard Rock Casino... Biloxi has several casinos, some with campgrounds so who knows how long we'll be in that area, probably has a lot to do with how much of their $$ we can round up. Hope everyone is ok and remember FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS AS TIME GOES BY QUICKLY.......CHARLIE &  HEATHER