The weekend of August 20-23, Chase, Brantley and I went on our first family vacation to Gulf Shores Beach, AL. We went with my parents and had a BLAST! Brantley was an angel the whole time! Even the car ride there and back. She was so sweet!
We stayed in condos called Sanibel. It was very nice! I would love to go back there maybe next year or something. Brantley or course loved swimming in the pool. We spent a lot of time down there because she was NOT a fan on the ocean water, the sand or the heat.
She really loves the water. We have a few videos of her but I've been having trouble with YouTube so they haven't gotten uploaded yet or I would share with you guys.
She that top middle picture...that was her reaction to her feet touching the gulf water both times we tried. She was NOT having anything to do with touching that water. It wasn't any colder than the pool so I think it was just that the water moved and made noise. haha! I'm sure next summer she will love it but for now she prefers the pool.
We went to dinner the first night at The Hangout but I forgot our camera. It was really good! We didn't stay and party or anything since we had BR but I would like to go back sometime when we can stay out later than 7:30. ha! Saturday night we ate at Bahama Bob's, which was wonderful and then on Sunday night we ate at LuLu's. Everything was great! No complaints on food here!
Saturday night was the most BEAUTIFUL sunset. Chase and my dad both took lots of pictures of it. Have you ever seen a sunset with green in it? How awesome is that?!!
On Sunday night we got to take these great family photos on the beach just before a really big storm came through. That's why the sky is so dark. I think they turned out great! I was determined to take some good family pictures because it was our first vacation and it had to be documented correctly. ha!
I thank my Mom for putting this trip together because otherwise we wouldn't have gone to the beach this year as a family. It was great to spend so much time with them. We love you, Mom and Dad, and we thank you for helping us with BR. My parents kept her one night for us so we got to go get TCBY and play mini-golf. It was so fun! We played at Adventure Island where they have a volcano that really (but not really) erupts. Fire comes out of the top! I mean a HUGE burst of fire blows out the top every once in a while. It was wild!
All in all it was a great trip and I'm so glad we got to spend the time together relaxing and having fun. I can't wait until we get to go back when BR is older. Hopefully she'll decide that she likes the water one day. :o)
