The beach! It was finally time for us to return to the beach! The excitement was at the top of the scale for sure. We haven't been since I was pregnant with Cameron, which was three whole years ago! Now just look at us...
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| The day before we left, this little girl accompanied me to the nail salon. Although she declined to get her nails painted, she did enjoy sitting in this cute chair. And for once, she was really good the whole time! First time at a salon. Nailed it. |
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| Somehow, some way, we were in a very full Escalade by 8:25 the next morning. Four happy kids. So far, so good. We stopped for lunch in Louisiana... |
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| then made it to our hotel in Hattiesburg, MS before dinner. These kids adore staying in a hotel. |
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| Soon after we met Chloe and her family at Cotton Blues--a fantastic restaurant with pancakes on the dinner menu for the kids. All 6 kids ordered them and they were GOOD! |
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| By the end of the night, we had the patio all to ourselves. We may or may not have let the kids get their wiggles out:) |
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| Then it was back to the hotel. Cami thought that she wanted to sleep with the big girls, but very quickly changed her mind. She's a mama's girl through and through. |
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| We got on the road by 9am the next day and pulled up at Fudpuckers in Destin for a late lunch around 2:00. Three very happy kids to be done with our road trip. |
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| We met lots of our friends inside. The Longs were headed out, but the Pointers were just arriving. So many kids! The excitement was palpable. |
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| We all squeezed into one mega-sized booth and the fun began. |
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| After lunch, we went outside for the main attraction--feeding live alligators! |
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| Cameron was sure happy that she had her big daddy there to help. |
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| Everyone else did pretty good putting the food on their stick and lowering it down to the gators. |
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| Such a fun way to start our vacation. |
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| "We fed and rode an alligator!" |
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| Other attractions included meeting a mermaid--only she didn't have red hair like Ariel, so Cami shunned her. Lol. I had to admit, she was sort of a spare mermaid! |
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| By far the most impressive creature to this little girl was the albino alligator. Ha! She loved it. Whined the whole way to our condo about how we needed to go back and see it. |
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When we arrived in Santa Rosa Beach it was gorgeous! We set a record getting our things unpacked and literally ran down to the beach. The start of a fantastic vacation.
Stay tuned for more fun in the sun! |
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