Young Party of Four

Last weekend we traveled down to good ole South Florida for about 36 hours. It was a bit of a whirlwind style trip, but we had such a great time that it was worth us to recap it for posterity. We always know we are likely to take a S. Florida trip in early January. Our friends' kiddo is a January baby so we always try to make it down for his birthday party. This year we decided to just stay one night and traveled down on Saturday, the day of his party. We left our house bright and early. As in 6:45am. After picking up some McDonald's breakfast for the road, we were on our way. We made it all the way to Fort Pierce with the kiddos before we had to make a bathroom stop. That was the plan all along so it is always nice when that works out. We were only out of the car for less than 20 minutes then back in for the remainder of the trip down. We set up a movie for the kids to watch and the settled in to watch Descendants 2. Traffic was pretty light so we made it down earlier tha...

1,850.7 miles 36 hours and 28 minutes spent in the car 5 hotels 4 states 2 happy kids 1 exhausted family Countless memories ... And our road trip from Florida to Louisiana and back again is over. We had such a great time! When we asked everyone what their favorite thing we did was we got these answers: Kenzie - Staying in all the hotels and seeing the Blue Angels Will - Eating beignets Kristen - Seeing the Blue Angels Steven - Visiting New Orleans because it is somewhere he has never been before This morning we were up early (as usual) and we packed up and loaded the car before breakfast. It's probably good this was our last night or the kids may have started revolting when we tried to make them eat out. Especially breakfast. They definitely slowed on how much they ate as the week went on. We were on the road by about 8:00 Central time. We knew we would switch back to the Eastern time zone and the drive was 5 hours so we wanted to get on the road. They kids rode ...

Today was the day. The day that we have been waiting for. Well, we were waiting for all of them but today was the event that basically set this particular trip in motion. Last summer we read through Dr. Beach's list of top beaches in the U.S . and found that Siesta Key was #1. So we visited it. Then when looking through the list we noticed Grayton Beach State Park in the panhandle and thought we should totally visit in one day. When we were talking about a trip this year, that came up and we basically built a trip around it. Yep. You read that right. We pretty much planned an entire road trip around one main stop. Well, it ended up being about a lot more but it all started with a beach. That's really our family's motto at this point. It all starts with the beach. Maybe I will get us all matching shirts with our family motto at some point. Haha! (Quick side note: Grayton Beach State Park is #3 this year.) We have been looking forward to this for quite some time. We moved...