the beach

Daniel will be leaving Pensacola at the end of May. So if we wanted to go to beach and have a free place to stay, we needed to go, like now. Since David didn't have to work overtime this past weekend, we thought it would be the best opportunity. So we loaded up the car and headed down Friday night. It was gonna be a very quick trip, but, its the beach, so it was worth it (to me anyway).


This is Saturday morning on the balcony. Daniel has a great view of the bay from his condo. Poor Matthan has puffy eyes due to his lack of sleep from traveling the night before.


We got good and woke up at IHOP (a still-sleepy Aubie pictured here).



And then it was off to the beach.



Matthan loved it, as I knew he would. We went back again in the evening to play in the sand a bit more, and it was very difficult keeping him from getting in the water again. Aubie and I collected pieces of sand dollars . We never found a whole, but it was fun looking for the biggest piece.




On the way home...

This is one of the best rest stops I've ever been to. Not because the bathrooms were so great, but the nice clover-filled picnic area really did allow you to "rest", even though for Matthan, "rest" means running all over the place.
Aubie showing me all the boo-boos from the weekend.

Not sure what this face was about, but it was funny.
Matthan loved seeing all the big trucks so close and he loved the little dogs that you can barely see in the right corner of the picture. He kept waving goodbye to them.
So yeah, it was a quick trip. But we had fun, and Matthan got to the beach for the first time. And now that he's been, I know we're gonna have to go back.

*Sorry "later this afternoon" turned into later this week. I couldn't seem to get all the pictures uploaded and type stuff too.
Oh, and the daytime pictures were taken by me, and the night time pictures were taken by David (except for the "crazy kids" picture).