Trip one: Sandestin, FL

March was an incredible month.

Since Jay's job only allows him to be home for 30 days at a time, we spend the 60 days that he is away on PLANNING.  So far, we have planned probably ten trips for our first year of marriage...and we are so excited!  Our first trip of the year was a fantastic beach getaway to Sandestin, FL. I have never been a "beach person" per se, but every year I think that it should be mandatory for a trip to a beach SOMEWHERE and Sandestin is my fav. 

Jay was only home for one day when we loaded up his truck with our luggage and made our way out of town!  (Before we left, I used a Groupon that I had previously purchased for Dave's Mobile Car Wash to come to our house and clean our cars...for 12 dollars...I am ADDICTED to livingsocial.com and groupon.com.)  There is nothing like leaving for a trip right after you get off work.  I was a ball of energy that probably could have propelled the car all the way down there without using any fuel.  We sang an entire set of 105 songs that we had on a cd.  We stopped for coffee 3 times.  We cut off our phones.  It was amazing.

To break up the drive to Sandestin, we stopped at an awesome Holiday Inn in downtown Mobile, AL.  It's a super cool "round" Holiday Inn with reeeeeealllly nice rooms.  The next morning we enjoyed breakfast at a place called Spot of Tea that I found on Yelp.com that had good reviews.  It was YUM.

The drive to Sandestin from Mobile did seem to last a little longer than it should have...or it could have been that the GPS woman in Jay's truck completely hates me and wanted me to hate her back...which I do/did. (She was stolen from Jay's truck in the Baptist Medical Center parking lot this past month...and since Jay's insurance bought him a new one, I'm not sorry. :) )  So, after much ado and yada yada yada, we arrived at our condo in the resort's Luau.  Wow.  I mean, all that it lacked was having food in the refridgerator...which it didn't. Jay checked it first. Ha.

The condo also had a king size bed in the bedroom, 1 1/2 baths, a dining room, living room, washer/dryer, and a wrap around balcony.  It was incredible.  We were very impressed.  And thanks to his sister Tracy telling us about bookit.com, the price was about 40% less than the Sandestin website offered it for.
I love Sandestin.  I love Baytowne Wharf.  I love Jay.  So....I was ecstatic.the.whole.time.

We were at Hammerheads and Rumrunners the first night.  Fortunately it wasn't crowded too badly on a Thursday night so we got to enjoy the dual pianos playing and the drink lines were short! (*That's my ring that Jay bought me in the Paris airport at the Swarovski store...love.it.)

Day two was all about parasailing and shopping! 

ha ha ha ha

800 feet above the Emerald Coast!

We had incredible food every night.  We ate at Bistro Bisoux, Old Bay Steamer and a couple of other places...

scallops over pureed sweet potatoes

Long Island Iced Tea.........Bread Pudding w/ goat cheese ice cream

We can't wait to go back next year.  March is definitely our month for the beach...

Also to be mentioned:

-Jay's next career should be "Sand Dollar Finder".  He dives like a duck and grabs with a passion.  We came home with a pocket full o' sand dollars....free.

-While Jay was diving for sand dollars, the dolphins found him interesting enough to swim within ten feet of him.

-I can sleep peacefully for an infinite number of hours on the beach, amidst a crowd of people.

-If you fall from parasailing from 800 feet, you will die...

-If I don't see a jellyfish, they don't exist.

     

Trip one: Sandestin, FL