We're Back!!

From vacation that is...well we have been back a week but it's been busy, and trying to get back into the swing of things. Were to start....we took off the week of July 4th, it's the same week we take just about every year. That's the week of Christian's birthday so we enjoy spending that time with him. At the beginning of the year we really didn't know if we would be taking a vacation or not. I just thought I would take a week and we would have a "stay-cation" and spend it around town. Which wouldn't be bad, there is so much to do in the city that we either hadn't done or has just been a long time. My nephew plays travel baseball and was having a tournament that same week in Orange beach. My sister and family were planning on spending the whole week, so we had the great idea of everyone going together. My mom booked a condo for the week and we were super excited to go. Jordan would be playing the second half of the week so he was still going to be able to enjoy the beach too.

They all left that Saturday the 2nd, while the boys and I planned on leaving early that Tuesday the 5th to drive down. We spent the weekend finishing up last minute things and spending time with Michael who happened to be in town. As always it was nice to have family time! That Saturday my cell phone died! Michael didn't want me driving by myself down to the beach so we both scored new phones! We were able to upgrade to a super new phone, which is so much faster than our older phones.

Tuesday morning came and we packed up the car and left the same time Michael headed back out of town. We hated he could make the trip with us, but we took lots of pictures so he wouldn't miss a thing.


Of course you can't go on a trip with out a goodie bag, little treats to help keep them busy along the way. Since I was driving alone it helped to keep them occupied a little in between movies.

 

 

The drive was good, and it seemed to go by pretty quickly. I guess the whole Alabama being an hour behind helped. We got there a little after lunch time, and we were ready to hit the pool. (side note, it was also the day Casey Anthony was found not-guilty and that kind of put me in a mood, but that's another story.) The condo was SUPER NICE! They had 4-5 pools outside, pools inside, some with slides, and a lazy river. One whole pool was specifically for little ones and only went about 3 feet so the Colin loved having a little bit of freedom to roam around.

 

That night we had planned on eating at "LuLu's" Jimmy Buffets sister's restaurant. It was so neat. You know your going to wait long, but they have so much outside to keep you occupied while you wait. The kids played in the sand, we walked around and just relaxed. After waiting a little over an hour we went to check on the status and were informed that there was a little mix up with our names, and it would be at least another hour to hour-and-a-half hour wait. By that time it was after 8:30 and we were hungry. So we left and hit up Arbys on the way back to the condo.