The Perfect Vacation

I love to travel.  I love to see new places.  I love to go to places I have never been.  I love to go to places that I have been before.

But, as far as vacations go, this absolutely ranks up there!  We went from the beach to the pool to the beach to the pool to the hot tub.  And got up and did it all over again the next day and the next day and the next day.  Well, you get the picture.

It took me a day to get the hang of it.  I can feel guilty about doing nothing.  But, by day two I was in the zone! We got up in the morning and drank coffee and ate breakfast on the porch watching the joggers go by.  We would walk on the beach and come back and swim.  We would eat lunch and swim some more and then go back to the beach either in the afternoon or at sunset.

We did some shopping at Bass Pro, of course, and the outlet mall.  We ate ice cream and walked along the harbor which was a big time tourist trap!  We went to a movie, to a couple local air museums on military bases and one night went fishing.  We played games and watched movies.  But, we mostly swam and walked the beach.  We swam and sat in the hot tub in the rain.  (It wasn't thundering or lightening.) I read a whole book!  We ate a lot it seems.

The kids were fabulous!!  I was a little nervous all six of us in such a tiny place.  But, they really did awesome.  They worked out sleeping arrangements on their own.  (EG and NG in the fold out bed.  LM on the top bunk and Boop on the bottom.)  They did things like take out garbage and sweep with out any complaining.  We had to keep things pretty neat because their just wasn't room for a mess!

They played games with each other in and out of the pool.  They took turns teaching EG how to swim.

I don't have a bunch of pictures because my battery on my camera was low and I didn't bring the charger.  But, I have a few to commemorate the vacation.  We are going to try to take advantage of this awesome opportunity again.

What a great way to start our school year . . .

Front of the condo.

The beach access across the street.

The first night we were there the waves were about 6 feet!  It was crazy to watch them roll in.

Gorgeous sunset.

My beautiful family on the beautiful beach.

The moon!

Nature is so awesome!

The view from our patio.

The pool right to the side of our patio.

Silly morning girl!

Bathing beauties.

Still crazy waves for a few days.

Gotta love her just doing her own thing.

Finding sand fleas.

Sun and sand and siblings.

Naval Air Museum on a rainy day.  Such a great place.  Boop is over the moon about military planes now.

My angels getting their pictures taken in Blue Angels.

Daddy in all his glory.  Big guns!

There I am in the corner of the picture.

Our complete vacation with a trip to Bass Pro.

Daddy teaching Little Mama to fish.  She said it was her favorite part.  No fish caught though.

Everyone got a chance to fish but my camera died.