MY MEMORIES

Charles Glenn Petersen

1968 - Alabama Years

Gulf Shores

During our time in Alabama we discovered Gulf Shores, Alabama with its white sands beaches and great seafood. One time we went there with two other couples with all the children. Our motel was right on the beach sitting up on stilts with parking directly below our room. The guys put the sailboat in in the back bay and sailed out into the Gulf of Mexico. We went to a seafood outlet and got fresh shrimp and a gunnysack full of fresh oysters in the shell. Winnie and the other two guys sat on the beach prying open and eating oysters while I and the other two women sat on the balcony above peeling and eating boiled shrimp. One night Margaret fell out of bed and cut the bottom of her chin. There was blood all over and to us the wound looked deep, so in the middle of the night we headed north 10 miles to a hospital. Once there the nurse discovered that there was only a loose flap of skin so no stitches were required only a bandage.