We had our first family beach trip and it was great!! It was originally going to be a split week of family/anniversary trip, but our plans fell through with our sister-in-law watching Cole, but it was wonderful and I wouldn't of changed it for the world. Cole LOVED it!!Casey and I both have old cars so we were going to rent a car to take down there, then out of curiosity I looked up flights and found $79 dollar flights to Pananma City, which is only 40 miles from where we stayed in Miramar Beach/Destin. Casey was not a fan of flying, not that it bothered him but he didn't understand why I would want to fly. I told him it would take us at least 10 hours with Cole if not more (a friend of mine had gone recently and with traffic in AL it took them 14 hours). Cole is not the best traveler, Casey has very little patience, so therefore I did not want to be in the middle of a long ride with the two of them! As soon as we landed and got on our car, Casey said "that was the way to go for sure! I will probably never want to drive again :)" It was an hour flight. Cole loved the plane and did such a good job. Like I mentioned early it was suppose to be a split trip, so now Casey was a little worried about what we were going to do for a week? He was saying things like "do people go to the beach for a full week? I have never been to the beach for a week, etc..." I thought he is going to drive me nuts! He assured me that he wanted me to relax and that he would go in with Cole everyday for his nap. So I thought hopefully I will at least get that quiet time! hehehe... and I did. We had a really good balance and break with family time and break time. I told Casey that I didn't mean this ugly but he has decided he likes being lazy since the last few times we went to the beach which was about 7-8 years ago. I guess I should have said he has gotten better at relaxing and enjoying our time together. He completely agreed regardless of how I said it.
The first night we went out to dinner. It was SO disappointing. I decided against crab legs (my favorite), but because they are time intensive and with a 2 year old I opted against them. I cant even remember what Casey got, but he was not happy either, then with our $61 dollar bill we decided that we were going to cook at the condo. Best idea! I went to a fresh market and got some shrimp and then we just made some easy dinners like spaghetti, burgers and hot dogs, and then we got something from the downstairs restaurant. Since we did not go out again we did not get a very good family picture of all of us, but we got a sweaty, no make-up, bathing suits and t-shirt one instead! :)
We also had some visitors for a few days, cousin Caroline and Greg. Greg was offered a coaching job down in Crestview which is about 40 miles from where we stayed, so they came down to check everything out, meet everyone and have his interview. So that was nice being with them for a few days.
Well, like I said I would not have changed anything. It went better than we could have imagined. Casey loved being there a whole week. On Tuesday he said, " I am really glad we are staying the week, it is just so relaxing and I do not feel rushed to do everything." He also asked me Thursday night if we could change our flight to a later date!! So needless to say he really enjoyed it as well. We are looking forward to another beach trip soon!!
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| one of his favorite spots this week |
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| He did this 75% of the time :) |
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| Our only family pic :( |
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| It was National Donut day we had to celebrate! |
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| The boy knows how to relax |
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| He is ready! |
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| One morning was rainy, Caroline and I got toes done, Cole napped! |
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| 1st Plane Ride!! Success!! |
