Biloxi Vacation, Day 5.

The next morning, we woke up with the sad realization that it was time to go home. We skipped continental breakfast, and Scott started packing up the suitcases. We had our soft-side Thule with us, and Scott started loading our suitcases in it. I took this picture of him from our hotel balcony.

I wanted to hit one more local place before starting the road trip home, but it was too early to go there, so we brought the kids to this cute little playground across highway 90 from the beach. Scott and I sat on a park bench while the kids played. The little park was wonderfully shaded.

After we left the playground, I asked Scott to park down by the beach. There was this one little adorable palm tree, there growing in the sand all by itself, and I wanted to get a picture of it before we left. It would make a great menu picture for a DVD, I thought to myself.

Finally, it was after eleven! We headed back up 110 and pulled into the Pizza Hut parking lot. I used to go to buffet lunch here all the time when I was in the Air Force, teaching classes at Keesler Air Force Base. We went in there and sat down to eat, and Rainlin said to me, "Mommy, look at all the soldiers!" I used to be one of those, I thought.

After stuffing ourselves with a great pizza lunch, we hit the road. Daddy found some Spiderman and Barbie coloring sheets at a gas station we stopped at on the way, and the kids had a blast coloring them with markers.

I felt sad about leaving Biloxi, but I knew that someday we'd get to come back and visit this wonderful town again.