Beach Trip 2011

We waited until school started and then took a beach trip this year.  I love not being tied to a school schedule yet!  We debated even going back to the beach this year since the girls were such a fan of the sand last year, but I'm really glad we did.  It's amazing the difference a year makes.  We headed to Panama City Beach and stayed at the very kid friendly Splash resort (VERY kid friendly).  It has a water park (which the girls were scared of because it dumped a huge bucket of water on the park every 2 minutes - and was also the main reason we booked this condo), swimming pool, lazy river, splash pad, and easy beach access.  We really did enjoy it.  Our days consisted of coffee and breakfast on the balcony overlooking the Gulf while listening to college football buzz, hitting the beach by 9 and then heading to the pool when the girls had enough of the sand.  We would go up for lunch and the naps (and I'd head back to the pool with a book), then we'd all go back to the pool when the girls woke up until dinner time.  It was great!  The Carrs came for fajitas one night and we all went out to watch State play Memphis the last night we were there, but other than that we were very low key and enjoyed early nights and no makeup days.  We timed it perfectly because Tropical Storm Lee came in the day we were leaving and it poured all through the Labor Day weekend.

The girls did great swimming.  Kennedy braved swimming all around in just her floaties and MM loved her ring.  They loved making friends in the pool and we loved watching them.  We even saw a little boy's bucket full of crabs on the elevator one night.  Kennedy said she doesn't like crabs because they have crazy arms.  We had such a great time I'm already wanting to go back!