Last weekend was my brothers wedding, and the beginning of our vacation! Things were a little hectic the week before our vacation because I had been on bedrest and wasn't sure if I'd even be able to go. I had a dr appointment thursday morning, my doctor okayed me to go on vacation as long as I would take it easy. No lifting anything, pushing pulling... and try to stay off my feet. My oldest brother Nathan, his wife Jasmine, and their two girls were going on vacation with us too and we had decided to all pile in my explorer to save on gas. So Friday morning we left for the wedding. The wedding was in Birmingham Alabama which is about halfway to Gulf Shores. We spent Friday and Saturday night in Birmingham for Caleb and Kristians wedding. The wedding was beautiful and HOT! It was an outside wedding and was 106 degrees at 7pm for the wedding!! The reception was insided though so it was a little cooler for that! Everything turned out really nice!
Sunday morning we loaded the car to head to Gulf Shores! The ride to Gulf Shores was definately interesting. Peyton, my 6 yr old neice of course wanted to know about every 10 min if we were there yet. And Piper, my 10 month old neice hadn't been feeling the best, she had a complete diaper blowout in her carseat while we were driving down the interstate. So of course we stopped on the side of the road to clean up that mess. Then Nathan decides he going to drive the rest of the way. Well he got tired of the GPS so he muted it. I had looked at the GPS at one point and we had about an hour and a half left. Well, about an hour later I looked at it and we now had about 2 and a half hours left and who knew we were almost to Mississippi!!! We eneded up about 3 hours out of the way and had to take a Ferry across the Ocean to get to Gulf Shores!!! While it was super aggrivating, the Ferry ride was pretty cool!
feeding the seagulls
FINALLY AT THE CONDO!!!
Monday we spent the day on the beach. Nathan did a little fishing and Peyton and Dallas wore the boogie boards out riding waves!
Tuesday night my cousins that live down there had a big Shrimp boil for us. Man, that was delicious! I think all of us ate our weight in Royal Red Shrimp!!
Wednesday we ate at LuLu's. Which is Jimmy Buffetts sisters resturant. It was alot of fun. They had a big like Jungle Gym on steriods for kids. Peyton had a blast on it! Wednsday night was fourth of July. We got to watch fireworks with my cousins right on the water. It was really pretty!!
The plan was to get up Thursday and leave Gulf Shores to head home around 11 or noon. We got up, got the car parked and checked out of the condo. Dallas and Nathan heard about "Captian Crunch" the worlds largest alligator which happened to be not to far from Gulf Shores so they wanted to go see that on the way home. I wanted to stop at the outlet mall because they had a motherhood maternity outlet store and it was right on our way out! We also all wanted to stop at a little local seafood market to bring home some fresh seafood. So by the time we did all those things if was after 5pm by the time we hit the raod to head home! We got home about 2:45 am! We had a really good time on vacation and plan on doing it again next year!
Holding a baby alligator
Captain Crunch
Sunday morning we loaded the car to head to Gulf Shores! The ride to Gulf Shores was definately interesting. Peyton, my 6 yr old neice of course wanted to know about every 10 min if we were there yet. And Piper, my 10 month old neice hadn't been feeling the best, she had a complete diaper blowout in her carseat while we were driving down the interstate. So of course we stopped on the side of the road to clean up that mess. Then Nathan decides he going to drive the rest of the way. Well he got tired of the GPS so he muted it. I had looked at the GPS at one point and we had about an hour and a half left. Well, about an hour later I looked at it and we now had about 2 and a half hours left and who knew we were almost to Mississippi!!! We eneded up about 3 hours out of the way and had to take a Ferry across the Ocean to get to Gulf Shores!!! While it was super aggrivating, the Ferry ride was pretty cool!
Monday we spent the day on the beach. Nathan did a little fishing and Peyton and Dallas wore the boogie boards out riding waves!
Tuesday night my cousins that live down there had a big Shrimp boil for us. Man, that was delicious! I think all of us ate our weight in Royal Red Shrimp!!
Wednesday we ate at LuLu's. Which is Jimmy Buffetts sisters resturant. It was alot of fun. They had a big like Jungle Gym on steriods for kids. Peyton had a blast on it! Wednsday night was fourth of July. We got to watch fireworks with my cousins right on the water. It was really pretty!!
The plan was to get up Thursday and leave Gulf Shores to head home around 11 or noon. We got up, got the car parked and checked out of the condo. Dallas and Nathan heard about "Captian Crunch" the worlds largest alligator which happened to be not to far from Gulf Shores so they wanted to go see that on the way home. I wanted to stop at the outlet mall because they had a motherhood maternity outlet store and it was right on our way out! We also all wanted to stop at a little local seafood market to bring home some fresh seafood. So by the time we did all those things if was after 5pm by the time we hit the raod to head home! We got home about 2:45 am! We had a really good time on vacation and plan on doing it again next year!
Holding a baby alligator
Captain Crunch
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