Vacation!!

The beach was great! We stopped in Vickburg to pick up Luke & Carrie and then continued on to Florida...

Here is our condo.

Funny story about how we got this one... We arrived in Sandestin at a reasonable hour (can't remember what time exactly) and searched for the hotel to check-in. We got keys to the condo we had rented and then drove to the right neighborhood. Mom had to get out and search in the dark for the right condo, because the addresses were on the condos and they weren't lit up :) Finally she spots it and we go inside and the first thing we see is... a 8x10 room with a bunkbed in it! So, she calls and explains in her very kind & gentle way that we have 3 couples and this is just not quite what we had in mind :) Luckily they were happy to oblige.

Andrew quickly discovered that the water turtles in the pond outside our condo were expecting us. He walked out onto the dock thing and immediately a dozen little turtle heads popped up from around the pond and started towards him. We had a fun time feeding them cheerios all week :) The last time we fed them, we had 25+ turtles show up!

Here we are waiting for the tram to come pick us up (see the rain?) we were playing tennis :)

The first time, we got rained out, we rode our bikes back in the rain! It was kinda fun.

We went to a little town called Seaside for a few hours one day (where "The Truman Show" was filmed) It was a cute little tourist town, right on the beach of course.

We also did some kayaking, although it was more just paddling ourselves around the bay and through some reeds (probably lots snakes in there). Luke & Carrie got to ride a waverunner and saw some dolphins, but unfortunately I don't have any pics :(

This is Taylor, he's a very old parrot that lives at the marina! He stays in the trees and then when he gets hungry or sleepy, he goes inside. When I was little, he was in a cage, so he's definitely happier :)

And of course the beach was fun! We had a great time jumping in the waves :)

We found out Friday night that there were sharks spotted on Thursday and they had closed the beaches. Fortunately, we hadn't gone to the beach that day!

Dad, Luke and Andrew got to play golf on some beautiful golf courses!

One night, we took a ferry over to Sandestin Village to have dinner. No, that's not the ferry. The town was neat, live music, good food and lots of tourist shops.

It was a great trip!! Thankyou Mom & Dad R. for inviting us :)