So, last summer my friend Jenni and I got a wild hair to go to the beach, so in May we planned a trip for June to Mexico City Beach. Since we only had a month to plan/save we decided to just share it all- the duplex, the car ride, hotel rooms, you name it. So just under a month after booking we loaded up three kids and two adults and a ton of stuff before sunrise and took off!
We wanted to make the trip down as much of an adventure as possible, so the first day we drove down to New Orleans. No one had ever been but me and I haven't been since Katrina, so I was pretty excited to see how things looked. We stayed out by the airport, dropped off our luggage and headed in to eat at Mothers, a well known Po'Boy place. After a yummy dinner we went to explore Burben Street before the sun went down. Unfortunatly, we didn't QUIET make it and ended up seeing a little more than we wanted, but the kids loved catching beads and dancing to music.
Side note: One thing that made me sad was it didn't SOUND as much like New Orleans. Before Katrina there were street musicians at every corner and the night and mornind we spent there we only heard TWO.
The next morning we loaded back up and took off to eat beignnets at Cafe Du Monde, YUM! It was a beautiful rainy morning and we loved it! But we were itching for the beach so we got out of town pretty quick....
The rest of the day was spent driving, driving driving and finally, we arrived at the beach! I was SO relieved when we saw our condo. It was RIGHT on the beach, so close, we could let the big boys play on the sand and we could sit on our porch and still see them. We spent the rest of the week watching our kids play in the sand, hunt craps, we watched dolphins swim around us in the ocean, stepped around sting rays, played on the playground at the bar and grill next door, cheered on our Thunder who were in the NBA finals (but they lost), and cooking out, laying out, going on runs, and having a relaxing good time.
We did take a couple of little trips along the way. One afternoon we loaded up and went into Panama City to go to Gulf World, it's like a minature Sea World. The kids LOVED petting all the marine life! Lyla was scared of the birds, but loved everything else. J and Dono golfed a little and we all ate out a couple of nights. We even got date nights by watching each others kids.
Overall, the beach is the PERFECT place to vaca with young kids. At least mine. They never tire of the sand, the ocean, and finding sea shells. They are two cute little beach bums!
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