Ah, a family vacation in FL...what more could you ask for? We headed to AL for the Father's Day weekend and then headed down to PCB on Tuesday with all of Daniel's family. It was beautiful weather...hot, but beautiful. We had a little thunderstorm come one day but other than that...sun!Charlie LOVED the beach. He loved playing in the sand. He loved the waves washing up over his feet (unless they got rough). He absolutely loved being out in the water on his float. He kept asking to go out in the water. After seeing how much he loved the water at the lake a few weeks ago, I was hoping for/expecting this reaction. I think his favorite thing to do though was to get water from the ocean, bring it up on the beach, and pour it out. He did this over and over and had all of us going to get him bucketfulls. His favorite was either that or getting to eat cheese puffs and drink capri suns on the beach. Daniel and I had a blast with him on the beach as well. Branson, my nephew, just hopped in the middle with us. I helped him build sand castles and find shells. Branson got a little courageous and ventured into the water with his boogie board. He's never really done that before so it was fun to see him having fun in the water for a change.
The house we stayed in was on the beach so we were able to go back and forth as needed which was really nice. It has a big deck on the back and we had a canopy set up so that there was more shade. This was a perfect spot for mornings. We could sit and enjoy the view with our coffee or breakfast and not be in the sun first thing. This also made it possible for Charlie to play in his sprinkle n splash island (aka...pool) first thing and us not be scorching in the sun keeping an eye on him. He had so much fun in his pool as well. Branson seemed to enjoy playing in it too but is was a little small with both of them in it.
Charlie napped in the afternoons so I got some time on the beach to myself which was nice. Daniel's mom was really good about watching him too for me to stay a little longer without a two year old whining at me. I did, however, manage to get burned. Nothing really bad but enough to keep me out of the sun for a day or two.
So, Tuesday - Friday was spent on the beach. Pretty much, as much time as we could get in, we were on the beach. We came in to eat lunch, snack, or potty break and back we go. We had canopies on the beach as well so, again, it was all baking in the sun. :)
Thursday night we went to Pier Park to eat dinner. Our plans were to go to Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville but there was a two and a half to three hour wait! So, we decided to walk across the street where we had a 15 minute wait and that was only because we wanted to sit inside instead of out on the patio in the sun. We ate at Guy Harvey's Island Grill. It wasn't just the best place I've ever eaten but it beat a 3 hour wait! We then walked around Pier Park. Charlie was bound and determined to cover every inch of the place on foot and he sure tried. It took Daniel, me, Gram and Papa to keep up with him. He did so much walking that he rubbed blisters on his feet. We stopped at a place that had live music. Charlie enjoyed that. We watched/listened from outside. I sat him up on a rail so he could see and he just danced to the music. The lead singer saw him and waved and Charlie waved back. It was really cute. Here is a video that Daniel took of Charlie dancing...
Friday, Daniel's sister's friend came with her two boys and they, along with Branson, played hard in the ocean until we realized they were getting stung by jellyfish. Charlie was out on his float with Gram and Papa and got his first jellyfish sting on the back of his leg. He didn't seem to notice much. The boys got out their nets and starting catching them to see how many they could get. It was really cool to see them in the bucket swimming around. They are actually quite beautiful to watch.
Saturday, Daniel's sister and her family went to Big Kahuna in Destin for the day. We decided not to go with them due to my sunburn. :/ So, the three of us and Daniel's parents went to Destin to the outlet mall. Charlie did not like this plan apparently because he was unhappy the whole time we were there...and, guess who had to tote him? Me, of course. I was about to have a heat stroke with a two year old attached around my neck. Daniel and both his parents tried to relieve me but Charlie just wasn't having it. Our shopping trip got cut short due to this but he was better once we got to a restaurant to eat lunch that had AC. I was in a better mood too. It's weird how being hot makes you cranky...well, along with Charlie's whining and crying...that could have been part of me being irritable too. We ate at Cheeseburger in Paradise and all had wonderful cheeseburgers. I had sweet potato chips with mine that were so good! We then headed back to the house to put Charlie down for a nap!
Sunday was packing day and we all left around lunch to head back to AL. We stayed at my parents' house that night so that we weren't making a 6 hour trip with Charlie. We headed back to ATL on Monday
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