Thursday, July 10, 2014

TN / FL Vacation, Part 3: Boat Rides & Beach Time with Nana & Grandad

 Wednesday morning we met up with my parents at the harbor for a morning on the boat. The kids were very excited to see their Nana & Grandad all the way in Florida!

We went out to crab island for some snorkeling and floating around.









 Lots to see and do out there, even an ice cream boat that floats around selling ice cream and plays the ice cream truck music! So fun!


Eric and Dad found some hermit crabs that we adopted for about an hour, then let crawl back into the ocean. The kids got a kick out of watching them and seeing them move around the boat.



Thursday morning was spent at the beach.







 Ella as a mermaid... she thought this was so funny!

 Carter and Grandad worked hard building a zoo of sand animals.
 And more castle building.
 My little beach babe.
 Big kid....

 The boys bobbing around out in the water.
We ate out on Thursday night at Boshamp's, a great new restaurant on the harbor with a fun view, a huge patio and a perfect little beach area where we watched the Thursday night fireworks show from.

 The men were happy to have their raw oysters, gross!!


 Ella enjoying the fireworks show with Mommy.


  Love!

 Such a cool spot! We loved this place!

Our last full day was Friday the 4th, and it was a great one!! That and our adventures getting home coming in the last post!

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

TN / FL Vacation, Part 2: First 3 days in Destin!

 We arrived in Destin on Sunday afternoon, and then had Monday and Tuesday to enjoy, just the 4 of us. We spent one morning at the beach, one morning on a fun pirate ship cruise, and the rest of the time around the pool at our beach house and just relaxing.

Sillies over breakfast!
These two shared a room and just loved their bunk bed!

Excited to be at the beach!

Eric and Carter did lots of boogie boarding





They had lots of fun spending time with Daddy building sand castles. Here they are pouring water into the moat for the first time.
So exciting!







Love this handsome boy so much!
She loved her legs being buried....
Cutie with cherry juice on her chin....
Back to the house and pool for more playtime after lunch.


Cracking up making each other's fish faces!
Best $5 spent on this giant beach ball... they had a blast with this thing!









....and the watergun airplane float.




Time for a pirate ship ride!






The second part of the week Nana and Grandad joined us for lots of fun at the beach, more pictures of that coming next!