Then we went by the grocery store to pick up some food for us to have at the condo. Speaking of grocery stores... We went to Winn Dixie but we were all quite tickled by the name of one of the grocery stores in Destin.... Publix! Not sure if it is pronounced with a long U or short U but we hoped for the short U. Ha!!
We came back to the condo afterwards and had lunch and put the kids down for a nap then Craig and I went to the wonderful pool. It is a huge, 12,000 sq. ft. pool or something like that. It is a short walk from our condo, as it is not in our resort but we had access to it, staying where we stayed. This is one of the reasons we picked this resort because a lot of the condos either don't have a pool at all or the pool is very small. Anyway, I really enjoyed spending a couple hours soaking up some rays and floating on my Dora The Explorer float furnished by the condo owners. So so so relaxing and enjoyable.
Then after naps, we decided to take the kids to the beach. Boy oh boy was this a nightmare!!! The kids were all so freaked out by the sand and the mere size of the ocean and the noise of the waves crashing into the beach freaked them out, mainly Tyler!! Oh my goodness - it was awful! He would not warm up to it even after sitting on the shore (being held), walking the shore (being held), sitting in the chairs (being held). It didn't matter what we did, they weren't having it. They all went out in the water and the girls did stop crying and screaming but not Tyler! Whitney was just mainly freaked out by the sand. As a matter of fact, the entire trip, anytime she saw sand on the street, she would walk around it because she was so afraid of it. She is my sensitive girl and always has been afraid of stuff like this. She was also afraid to walk on rocks or anything other than pavement. Anyway, we stayed all of probably 20 minutes and left and never visited the beach again with the kids. All the stairs that had to be climbed to get to the beach and with the three kids and all the chaos, we figured it wasn't worth it to try again and attempt to acclimate them to it.
We went back to the condo and got cleaned up and went out for dinner. We went to the Old Florida Fish House. Their salmon and bread was SOOOO good! It was a neat little restaurant - slightly hidden off the main road and the whole set up leading to the restaurant, including a little souvenir shop leading up to the restaurant, was neat.
Here we are just outside our front door on the front balcony getting ready to go to dinner. It was Memorial Day but poor Tyler didn't have any red, white and blue to wear...
We decided to be silly and take our picture with the sign.... there are actually pictures of us kissing the fish too but I will spare you. :)
Sadly we didn't take very many pictures this day because in the morning we didn't do much and the beach was too chaotic for pictures. We took the camera to the restaurant but forgot it in the car so we didn't get any pictures at dinner. A day or two later we went back and took some pictures of the restaurant sign.
Day two to follow...
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