Emily learning how to fish
We got home last night from spending Thanksgiving at the beach with extended family. Last year Eddie and I spent a long weekend in Orange Beach in October with my brother-in-law Terry and niece, TJ. When we left, we talked about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and thought we might try to plan a week at the beach. It was too close to Thanksgiving last year to pull it off so we decided this year would be the year to do it!
After our traditional family gathering the weekend before in Athens, AL at my niece/nephew Kate and David’s home, we packed up and headed to Orange Beach on Tuesday. My mother went with us as well as our daughter Emily. My son Charlie and his girlfriend, Danielle joined us Thanksgiving night. We were also joined by Kate and David, my brother-in-law Allen and his wife, Rhonda and their son, Jason. There were 12 of us Odoms total.
Sunset from my brother-in-law’s boat on Ono Island
My brother-in-law, Terry keeps his boat on Ono Island so he is very familiar with restaurants and places to go so he kept up entertained the whole time we were there. Riding on the boat, dining at places like the Flora-Bama Yacht club and Tacky Jacks and just hanging out on the dock to fish, kayak, paddle board and watch the sunset…it was the perfect setting for everyone to spend time together and just relax.
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner at Live Bait! 
For Thanksgiving day, we had lunch at Live Bait. I knew it was a buffet but didn’t realize it was a traditional Thanksgiving dinner buffet! It was nice to have turkey and dressing and gravy at the beach and not have to cook and clean up for a change. Of course, today I was thinking it would have been nice to have had some leftovers!!! Ha!
Helping Jason get his car going! 
Our final act was to hang around on Saturday as we were leaving to help my nephew Jason get his car repaired. My son, Charlie came to the rescue along with my BIL-Terry with his connections in town. Family sticks together! We even had a little caravan out of Orange Beach until we all hit I-65!
It was a great week at the beach…making memories and celebrating our family. Here are a few I captured this week.
Sunset from my brother-in-law’s boat on Ono Island
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