Friday starts up with hazy memories of Thursday night. If I can figure out how to post videos, then you all will be stunned by what we all saw. It was as if Ernest himself had hopped up on stage and was attempting to sing Last Chance with Mary Jane. Poetry, pure and simple.
Amy and I headed back to Ocean Springs for some more car lovin and culture.
We walked the streets looking at beautiful cars of all years and models. Some were restored to classic condition, others were sooped up with engines raging, while a few were.... well... not. These rare few were best represented by an old ford pickup truck. I was painted black with no hood, only a barbed wire outline of the hood. The seats were toilet seats and the pedals were rat traps. Rubber rats, spiders and snakes were glues to the car and a bottle of Tabasco was above each headlight. I don't know how long it takes for Tabasco to turn into a separated yellow liquid, but that's how long they had been there.
I decided to go on a search for my dads old car, the 64 1/2 mustang. I searched and after a lot of talking to the enthusiast and seeing all different ages and styles and hearing the back story on near all of them, the earliest Mustang i could find was a 1966. Hopefully you have better luck then I did at finding your car dad.
After the search we headed over to Shadys global cuisine, an aptly named establishment. This place had everything; burgers, steaks, Thai food, Chinese hot pots, grits, to Cajun soul food. And surprisingly, it was amazing. We had crazy craw fish, a plate of fried craw fish tails and fried jalapenos with a chipotle ranch dip. I found i really like fried jalapenos, need to figure other uses for this. For lunch I had the coconut curry noodles with chicken and those wonderful wide rice noodles, Amy had one of the best cashew chickens I have ever had. I am still curious why cashew chicken is so big down here, almost every place has its own version.
After lunch it was off to the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, WAMA, for some good ol' learnin. He was actually and amazing artist, if a bit psychedelic in some of his works. His entire family was very talented in many mediums of art, sculpture, painting, ceramics. His history was very interesting like how he tied himself to a tree on horn island to ride out a hurricane and that he did pictures for children's books. And the museum had a really cool event space that was entirely painted by WA, its a great room.
After all that we needed a drink and a cool spot to watch all the cars go by so we posted up at the Office. Best part was the guy playing the guitar was doing all jackson, ludacris, sir mix a lot, and other rapper covers. And they had a giant jar filled with peppers, lemons, limes, onions, and other things that they used to make bloody marys, ohhhh sooo goooood!!
That night we hit up Phoenician back in Ocean Springs. It was a great Mediterranean restaurant, BYOB which surprised me, with tuxedoed waiters and 5 minutes of specials. I had the steak shawarma and Amy had the chicken shawarma, both which were amazing but... our waitress forgot our salads and never mentioned it the entire meal. Also this menu has, again, a bit of everything! After looking at these great medieranian dishes they have a section called, "A Little Bit of Mexico", WHY?! Anyway dinner was great, had a wonderful time with a great dining companion then it was off to the bars to tear up the town with JD and his fiance Heather.
Long story short, Heather got Bushwackered, Amy got Tonic'ed, JD met Mr. JD, and Stewart... well he used his stomach as the party punch bowl and everyone was invited.
Had a blast, but we are taking the wave runners our tomorrow, so I have to be ready for that.
Stewart
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