We explored downtown Mobile a bit. It has old southern architecture, which I love. There were some nice parks, a cute community garden, and even a little free library.

I love the history of older towns and found this interesting.

The pageant has been going well. The Friday night party was fun.  The director gave out t-shirts and sharpies so the kids could get autographs from friends. It was a really cute idea and the girls seemed to really like it. K had a blast with it. Although we had to convince her that she, in fact, only needed to write her first name.

After her hard work, we took her to Dauphine Island for a little beach time. She hates the salt water but LOVES the sand.

Road trip funsies
1) K: I had a big one!
W: Thanks for sharing!
K: Thanks for knowing!

2) K loves Mr. Tim (for non pageant peeps, he’s a very popular announcer in the pageant world) she got his autograph on her shirt first.

3) K loves Mr. Tim (I feel like I’ve said this). She has been talking for three weeks about how if he sang to her, she was going to kiss him. Well, in lineup it happened! She was so excited when he started singing, she kept staring at him and rarely looking at the judges. When he knelt down beside her, she had the biggest grin. She went for it. Planted one on his cheek, then giggled. Oh, she was so proud of herself!

4) My favorite of the weekend; a nice lady working the door at the pageant looks at Keely, looks at me and says, “Well, this one sure ain’t short on personality.” No ma’am, she isn’t!

5) At the beach, Keely makes me a pretend birthday cake, makes Wade sing to me, points out the pretend decorations, then starts giving me pretend presents (it’s my unbirthday party). She hands me one and says, “What is it?” Going with the pretend theme I say, “A unicorn.” She looks at me with a stone cold face and says, “No. Its sand.”