Bush Life: The Beachy Beach

We went to Destin and it was a-mazing!

I made sure to get an ocean front room so we could walk straight to the beach...no car required! This was our view from our room when we first got there.

And we even had a view on the side of our balcony - to the swimming pool! Which was the most exciting part of Eva's vacation. She would go out on the balcony and just sit in the corner and stare at the pool for MINUTES at a time! Like a lot of minutes...

But we had great weather the whole time, and it was just great!

Oh and we figured out how to get Eva to smile for pictures....she has this great fake laugh montage she does, and one-third of it involves smiling :)

Another third involves a big open mouth such as this

And then the other third is this darling face! Also notice her hand on her hip...I am teaching her all the tricks early!

And then she kissed me straight on the mouth!

And then she took the longest nap on the beach ever...three hours long and we had to wake her up when we were leaving...but I understand. The ocean sounds! (Her normal naps are 1.5-2 hrs)

While she slept we took turns swimming out to an embankment you could stand up on in the ocean maybe 100 yards out? It was SUPER cool, I went first and on my way back saw twenty jumping/flying fish! So I knew it was magical and then I made George do it. He made it out there, stayed there forever and then made it back and told me I'd have to try harder than that to kill him. He has a reeeeally dramatic story about his experience and how he wanted to flag down the boat behind him because he knew he'd drown if he tried to swim back to shore and a bunch of other details that he really wants to make into an episode of "I shouldn't be alive." He only saw one jumping/flying fish.

Oh and Eva would go out in the waves a little bit, but she much preferred the safety of her dirty warm little river...she really loved playing in this thing with all her shovels and buckets.

Don't mind all the re-used photos.

The second morning we were there Eva woke up ridiculously early (from the one hour jet lag time zone difference), but it ended up working out for us. We opened up our balcony and saw...DOLPHINS! Lots of dolphins swimming in small groups in between the embankment and the shore. And then a huge flock of pelicans flew right over our heads! And THEN we saw two giant shadows swimming right along the shore almost and decided they were sting rays. It was like animal planet right in front of us!!

On our last day we got our kite out and walked down for a last hurrah in the sand. We got a picture of a bird and fish together.