Beach Vacation....Alligator Fun!!!

Tuesday we had lunch at Lulu's and then headed to the Alligator Farm! Lulu is Jimmy Buffet's sister and has a restaurant on the marina. It's a fun place with a really neat atmosphere...and great food! Gracyn feel asleep on the way there and slept the 15 minutes while we waited for our table. The little girl was tired!!!

After lunch we headed to the Alligator Alley! Clint and Eric were really looking forward to this! We started off by looking in the separate boxes that housed the baby alligators. They were separated by ages 1, 2, and 3.

Alligator bait?! Not this sweet girl!!!

The neatest thing about this farm is that you were able to walk thru the swamp and see the alligators more in their natural habitat. Of course, we were walking up on a bridge! However, we weren't that high above the gators. We had bought a thing of food and was able to feed them. It was like dog food, only bigger. If you have ever seen an alligator in a zoo you will know they just lie there. Not these gators! Once you threw the food in they would go after it!

Do you see the gator?!

Feeding the gators!

Off to do some gator hunting!

Once we walked thru the swamp we headed over to the bleachers for feeding time. Along the way, we saw a worker with a small gator. The girls were able to sit at the picnic table with him and pet the little guy.  Then it was feeding time! It was really amazing. It's like the gators know what time feeding time is. They all swam up and were just waiting for the guy to feed them. He had a mic on and gave us a lot of info about the gators. After the show, we stuck around and talked to him and asked him some questions. The gators that are there were captured because they were nuisance gators, meaning they were bothering people at their homes and sometimes getting after their pets! I have to say....this was one of my favorite things we did on this trip!

Petting the gator!

Gracyn's first encounter with a gator is when she was just 9 months old!

Brave man!

After the show, we headed to the gift shop so the girls could pick out a stuffed alligator. Then we headed to Wal-Mart to get dinner. Bill and Sarah just happened to be in Gulf Shores the same week we were so we had them over for dinner! We grilled steaks, had salad, twice baked potatoes, bread, and banana pudding! It was great just hanging out at the house with great friends!