Vacation Part I: Perdido Key

I'm baaaaaack! Sorry for the lack of posts over the past 10 days, but this blogger has been vacationing!

Keith and I have spent the last 8 days in the beautiful Gulf in Florida, spending most of our trip in Perdido Key, and the last part at Rosemary Beach. We had an amazing time, full of lots of relaxation and good times with friends. Because I have tons of pictures to share, I'm breaking this down into two parts.

Let's start with Part I: Perdido Key/Gulf Shores with our dental school couple friends.

It was lovely!

This is our big group!
From left: The Joneses, The Siscos, The Trammells, The Puryears
We had been planning this trip since November!

We left Friday afternoon, May 28th, for our beach road trip and arrived late that night/early Saturday morning. We spent the next 6 nights and 5 days having a wonderful time! 

The colorful beach, not yet ruined by the oil

We stayed in a great condo, and set up a big spread on the beach. We had two big tents, lots of chairs and plenty of beach space for relaxing! We also listened to some great music as we all let our worries wash away....

We had:

Chairs for sunbathing

Punch for drinking

Floppy hats for shade

Books for reading

....and sandy, sandy toes!

We also had corn-hole for playing!

And we enjoyed it every day!

Competition was sometimes intense!

The boys attempted a sandcastle....

And worked very hard....before a rain storm forced us inside for a few hours :)

Chip and Travis

The husbands were also very cheesy, at times.
They love to pose for the camera!

My Baywatch babe, Keith.

Charles, you are so funnnnnny

Travis, catches up on some reading


Speaking of reading, we did LOTS of it!

Julie works on the last Twilight book, Breaking Dawn

I read a total of three books. More on that later!! It was pure bliss.


Kayla read Dear John, then we watched the movie :)

And Lauren read lots on her Kindle.


We didn't JUST read though, we basked it the sun like it was our only job!

Kayla

Lauren

Me, on a raft in the water.
I wish I could do that everysingledayofthesummer.

Julie and I
+ my crazy beach hair

Hubby and I wearing some new swimsuits.
I like the little lobsters on his. Cute, cute.

We got lots of great pics on our last day together: Wednesday

The whole gang! 

Everyone looks more tan than they did when we arrived!

Couple love

Wives club!

Again, they love to ham it up!

Oh this was crazy!
We saw a funnel cloud over the water just as a storm was moving through.

We could see the top of the funnel and then the bottom where it was stirring up the water, but we never saw it connect, unfortunately.

We watched it move down the beach, pretty cool!!

Keith with a Remora, or suckerfish.

He and Chip spent lots of time out in the water with goggles and nets. They caught hermit crabs, baby flounders, and all sorts of random little things. But, this Remora was the coolest. Keith walked up to the condo with it stuck to his chest.

I call him the fish whisperer.

We also had lots of fun in the evenings! We took turns cooking or grilling out and we went out to eat a few times, too. There was no lack of food or drink on this trip!

We took lots of pictures every night on the balcony.
Sometimes wrangling the group together wasn't easy!

On this particular night, Keith was standing at the rail looking out at the ocean, when something comes flying down from above, right by his head.
It was a silver spoon.
Somebody in a higher condo dropped it and didn't say anything. It was pretty funny.
That spoon was in the grass, 6 flights down, all week.

One night we had a pretty cool lightening storm.
I snapped this picture just as one lit up the night sky.

Winding down from a great day in the sun!

All the boys in white, by accident.

Again I say, they are such goofballs.
And that's why we love them!!

Our view from dinner one night at The Oyster Bar

Last night in Perdido!

We have been a little kissed by the sun. I love it!

Again, boys, you never stop making me laugh!

We headed to Florabama on our last night in town:

The girls balancing on the Florida/Alabama state line

Look, ma! I'm in two places at once!

Vacation Part I was fab. We had a blast! Thanks, friends, for being great travel companions. We'll never forget our fun beach trip!

Coming up next: Part II in Rosemary Beach :)