For a few years now, I’ve been wanting to take an overnight trip or even just a long weekend to the beach. Any beach.
We’ve gone to Savannah/Tybee Island a couple of times over the years we’ve been here in Georgia. It’s always so miserable driving home sandy and salt watery(yes that’s a word).
Every year when summer came around, it just never seemed to happen. We either already had other trips planned or visitors coming. Having a baby in July 2012 kinda blew my beach plans that year! But this year we finally made it happen! We knew Kaydin would have a blast, and Kamryn is old enough now to hopefully enjoy it and be able to play on her own.
So Michael picked the best weekend for him to take off work, and gave me the go ahead to book our beach getaway. There were so many decisions in planning this trip! Gulf or Atlantic? Which hotel? How many days? Not as easy as I thought!
So after we made all of those important decisions, the day finally came and we headed off to Panama City Beach FL! Kaydin was just a little excited can you tell? hahaha
The drive was a little over 5 hours
I had a really hard time choosing a hotel. Especially since we had never been there before and didn’t know the area. I relied on pictures and reviews on all of the travel websites, which can be scary! Ultimately I kept coming back to the same hotel so that’s what I went with.
2 things that sold me:
(view from our balcony)
And this….
I wanted to be able to walk to the beach/room, have an amazing view, and have a decent pool. Check, check, and check!
Now the hotel/room itself wasn’t the greatest by any means. Definitely needed some updating! But it worked for the 2 nights we were there.
The first morning Michael took the kids down to the beach to reserve a set of chairs/umbrella while I was still getting snacks and things ready. I spy Kaydin near the water – white shirt red shorts and Michael sitting under the umbrella? M was probably texting me at that point “how much longer? Kamryn is screaming her head off!”
Yep, she hated the beach. She hated the sand. She hated the water.(noise of it maybe) She hated wearing her hat etc.
She liked the juice and snacks however! Some things never change
So the boys played and swam….
HAHAHA…oh Kamryn
And found some unwanted friends in the water
And us girls did this…..
I caught her “playing in the sand.” Notice she’s not touching the sand at all!
This picture sums up our beach adventure this go around
~Michael in the water
~Kaydin playing in the sand
~Kamryn screaming on the chair
~Momma taking pics of everyone
I did get to have some fun though too!
I got her to play IN the sand a little!
And out in the water, but not IN the water….little stinker. I may have dunked her a few times
After 2 nights in PC, we headed to our next stop for the trip. Our favorite amusement park Wild Adventures! It was on our way home so we just couldn’t resist.
Here we are on the safari train
Kamryn LOVED the water park this time! We were so relieved especially after her being so awful at the beach.
She had a blast!
Know how I know she had a blast?
This is how…….
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I great time was had by all. Kaydin keeps asking when we’re going to go to Panama City Beach again. I just say maybe next summer!
No comments:
Post a Comment