Easter Sunday night, we headed to Destin, Florida with Matt's family for spring break. We met up on the plane in Nashville, and all flew to Destin together. This is the first time that all of us had the same spring break, so we decided to take a family vacation. We stayed in a house together on Crystal Beach and we had a blast! We got there really late Sunday night and flew back home late Friday night. The weather was beautiful….in the 70's and sunny Monday through Thursday. It rained on Friday, but we had to be out of our house anyway so we went out to a late breakfast, and went to the movies before we headed to the airport. We spent the days at the beach and the pool, and we went to dinner at night. One day we went on a dolphin cruise, and one night we also went go karting and miniature golfing. I had finished up my Masters degree a few days before we left, so I was definitely ready for a vacation. All of us were excited to get away for a little bit and enjoy some nice weather!! There are too many pictures to write captions for each, but I will try to separate them into categories.
It was so late and so foggy when we landed in Panama City. After we got both of our rental cars, we drove 45 minutes to Destin and our vacation began…
Pictures from the beach…
Landon & Matt walking back to our house from the beach one day…
Pictures from the pool…
Cara got so sun burned the first day that she had to be fully covered the next day. That is her, under all the towels, laying by the pool!
Keegan loved coating the lizards we would see by the pool
One afternoon Keegan had a blast playing baseball by the pool. His bat was a water bottle!
The boys loved sitting in the hot tub at the pool
Keegan played baseball that same night again in the pool
Pictures from our dinners…
Night 1: The Harbor Walk and Dinner at La Famiglia
Night 2: Dinner at Lulu's
After dinner at Lulu's, we went to play Miniature Golf and Go-Karting
Dinner Night 3: The Other End
(It was FREEZING, in case you can't tell from the pic!)
Dinner Night 4: We ordered pizza and ate at our house
Since Rod's birthday was the following week, we made him an ice cream cake at the beginning of the week and ate it every night for dessert! Here he is getting ready to blow out the candles…
Pictures from the Dolphin Cruise...
We ended up seeing a ton of dolphins. It was a lot of fun!
At one point on the cruise, any passengers could feed the seagulls so they were everywhere. The boys were terrified!
At another point on the cruise, all kids got to be the captain and drive the ship. The boys loved this part. Here is Captain Landon...
And Captain Keegan…
This is a group pic from our last day in Florida, in front of our house
As we were passing time on that rainy Friday the before our flight, we went to Bass Pro Shops. Landon and Keegan loved looking at the big fish there.
What a fun time! Thank you Rod and Dixie for a great trip…we had a blast!!
