It's almost been a week since our return from vacation and I think I'm finally out of mourning enough to go through the pictures. It was an unusual family vacation because Travis didn't get to go. The crazy amounts of rain we have gotten this summer has greatly affected his work, so he stayed home and did just that. Instead his mom joined us on our journey to Gulf Breeze/Pensacola Beach, FL and despite all the rain, this trip was nothing short of fabulous! We played in the sand, ventured out to the sand bar, swam in the pool, jumped off a pier, watched fireworks, ate a lot, stayed up late, slept in, laughed a lot at each other and other tourists, visited relatives and did everything in between. There were no plans and a lot of spur-of-the-moment fun and unlike most vacations that you need a vacation to recover from, I came back completely refreshed and ready to go back within days! Now my OCD self will not allow me to post pics out of order and the mother in me thinks every shot is picture perfect of my boys, so get ready for a lot of pics and a lot of posts of 7 of the most perfect days of our Summer of 2013.
Day 1
We slept in on the day we were going to leave and leisurely packed up and headed out around noon. That's something you can do when you don't have men on vacation with you - travel leisurely. We got there just in time to unpack and go to the grocery. I'm lucky in that my kids are great travelers. Seriously. I've heard horror stories of car sickness, constant fighting, etc. and we had none of that, so even the drive down was great.
Day 2
Did I mention that we slept in? Like my 6 year old slept until 11 am almost every day. This might bother some parents, but Travis and I are night owls, so we're perfectly fine with our kids catching up on their sleep until late in the morning because we will definitely follow suit. Marshall woke earlier, but he was perfectly content with eating breakfast while watching cartoons in his p.j.'s until his brother got ready for the day. First up, a dip in the pool. Have I mentioned how thrilled I am that both of my boys are swimming?
After a late lunch and an attempt at naps, we headed to the "real beach" (Marshall's words with the pool being just the plain "beach") around 4:30, plenty of time left for some sandy fun.
Sweet sandy toes taking a rest in Mama's lap.
We finished up with a late dinner at Crab's on the beach, Jack's choice.
Horrible picture, but I had to capture the loads of fun they were having playing nearby on the playground.
Marshall took a nose-dive in the sand, which was ok because Jack had already informed us that sand doesn't taste that bad.
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