Bite Sized Vacation - Gulf Shores, AL

Getting pulled out of school to catch a flight made me feel like a busy movie star, even though I only missed the last 25 minutes of class, and our plane was so small my head brushed the ceiling, and we were flying to Memphis.

Nothing wrong with Memphis, mind. We flew in at night, and the city looked SO pretty from the sky, all lit up and spread out like that. I really wish I had nabbed a picture, but I'm actually very paranoid when it comes to 'all electronic devices must be turned off.'

We landed, got our rental car, and then proceeded to find out very quickly that the directions given to us by the rental car man were, for some reason, completely backwards. Thus we discovered the power of an iPhone.

Obligatory right view from hotel window. Left is pretty much the same.

Weird thing about our hotel, not only were the lots next to it on either side empty, but the lights in the parking garage were such that it seemed to drain everything of color. Our little red car was no longer red in that garage!

Boardwalk! Kind of. Led from the hotel to the beach.

Run, guys!

My theory is that the color-sucking lights in the parking garage were made as such to feed the colorfulness of the hotel.

Our SUPA colorful hotel as viewed from the beach.

Endless source of amusement, these.

I took about a billion pictures of the birds on the beach. There were these little things, and then ones were skinny long legs and beaks, and seagulls as well. They were very entertaining to photograph.

Best name for a boat ever? I think so.

 The dolphin tour was a lot of fun, even though we got no majestic leaps out of the water. Funny thing was, the dolphin tour was the only thing out of all of the ones I wanted to do, that we did. Everything else, from the Ferris wheel to the biplane, was done for maintenance. Boo.

Honestly the best picture I could get.

And the next day we went to this darling little zoo that let us get super close to the animals - I didn't manage to get a picture of it, but I got to pet a wolf, and he honestly wagged his tail! It was pretty neat.

Decisions, decisions. 

They were sleeping in their cave, so I nabbed this picture instead.

Chiller bros.

Apparently, wood is nutritious and delicious.

Funny story break - the donkey above was penned with a llama, and when we started to feed the donkey, his llama friend came over too. So my grandmother fed him some pellets, which he promptly spat back out all over her! I thought it was pretty funny, but then again, I have a pretty mean sense of humor...

I don't even remember what he was, but he picked up the food I had in my hand with his tongue. SO CUTE.

Thus ended our trip to the little zoo that could. For the rest of the day that we had left, we spent it on the beach, soaking up some sun and getting burned in the strangest places. Reading on the beach is so relaxing, my grandmother made a recording of it on her iPhone to take back to Kansas with us!

Sunset (jealous yet?)

...and sunrise!

You all are lucky. I took about, roughly, a billion and two pictures over the course of two days, and I narrowed it down to 49 for Facebook upload, and then only to 17. You're welcome. Who knows how much I'll have to cut it down for deviantArt?