More pics from vacay

Just chillin'

Where do you think she is ready to go to?

Let's go ridin'!!!

Let's take a nap!!!

Daddy's smooth pedaling must have wiped her clean out. She was asleep 30 mins into the bikeride.

And now our big news...

We have enjoyed our time here so much, that we have decided to just stay. In 4 short days, we have opened our new business on the beach. It is Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken. And it's good! So come visit and eat some chicken.


hehe, no really. We ate here for lunch one day and the food was great. I guess it's a chain, but we've never heard of it.

The real big news is that poor Becca had about a half dozen meltdowns yesterday. You aren't going to see many pictures. We didn't even get to have our last dinner out, so we got it to go. I know she is tired and ready to go home. Send happy thoughts our way for the long drive ahead. We are going to try to make it to Bernie's house in TN tonight for our stop.

No shoes, no shirt....no problem!

Watch out for the giant flesh eating crab!!!!!!

Maybe not.

Isn't that sweet!! I'm surprised Becca would hold Momma's hand. She has become quite the diva when it comes to any kind of public affection.

Just hangin' out at the Hard Rock!! We didn't go in but it made for a good photo op.

On the way to the beach!!! Look at me riding like a big girl!!
"What's in this bucket??"

"I like diggin in the sand!!"

"You can't catch me!!"

More beach pics...

First Beach Pictures

Well, here are some Day 1 pictures as promised. Here is our 2nd floor balcony. It took Becca all of 30 minutes to figure out how to throw her shoe overboard, so down I went to retrieve it. Before you all get too excited about our balcony, let me tell you that we have a lovely view of the parking lot. Woo hoo.

We got down to the beach about 4:00. We had spent a couple of hours in the condo hoping that Becca would nap, but no such luck. So off we went. When we got there, double red flags were up which means no swimming. The waves were pretty high (see pics). There were tons of people still swimming, and the beach patrol would come by every few minutes to shoo them away again.

Becca was not loving the beach and the sand. It was actually funny, so I had to take this picture. She will hate me when she's 12.

Surprisingly, it didn't take her long to warm up. She likes the sand! And off she went....

I guess we were "Destin"ed for vacation.

We arrived at our condo around 6:30 p.m. yesterday. We hit the road about 11:00 after watching the weather channel for a few hours. We had decided to get to Waynesboro, MS; eat some lunch and plan our decent south to Florida. We could either keep going on Hwy 45 to Mobile, AL or take a different route further east and then down to the coast.
After a quick bite at the local Wendy's, I made the executive decision to stay on Hwy 45; after all it was hardly even raining; how bad could it be? About 10 miles down the road we found out. The radio was tuned to MS public radio and about every 5 minutes a new tornado warning popped up. At first they were south and west of us according to the atlas. But then they seemed to be in the county we were heading to or the one we were in!! We kept on truckin' however and after about 2 hours of white knuckle driving we made it to a gas station for some cover on the outskirts of Mobile. We knew the tunnel and the causeway were closed so we took a "detour" around Mobile that brought us into Pensacola. It was smooth sailing the rest of the way and nary a raindrop since. Destin is beautiful and our condo/resort is quite nice.
Now that I have experience driving in a hurricane we'll be ready when we leave here; just in case Hanna decides to show up.
We will post some pics later, but for now we are off to the beach. Y'all have fun in tropical storm Gustav!!

I once knew a girl named Meridian

Well, here we sit in our hotel room watching the weather channel. We are getting some rain here, 196 miles from New Orleans. From what we can tell, some of the roads may be closed the way we need to go (Hwy. 98 from Mobile). Some of the biggest worry is tornadoes.
More updates later...right now I hear a free, $99, continental breakfast calling my name.