I've learned in the past that it's a bad idea to describe every single thing that happened in chronological order in full Technicolor detail... it's just not interesting reading. So instead, here are the highlights of the family vacation I took to Destin, Florida.
In anagram style.
A is for alligators, namely the albino one that we saw at this one place. Only a few of them exist and only in special controlled habitats, apparently.
B is for Brusters, because we ended up getting ice cream there... twice? They had a Sea Salt Caramel Toffee flavor down there... not bad, actually.
C is for Catherine, because she played kind of a big part in the trip for me personally. That's enough about that, though.
D is for Deweys, a sea food place right on the coast that we visited twice. In an effort to avoid fried foods (burned oil and other such things which I might rant on later), I had the grilled shrimp and the grilled scallops. My final judgment is that the scallops are a better single bite, but the shrimp make a better meal. I hugely recommend both, however.
E is for eating, because a lot of our trip revolved around it. :D
F is for flags, namely the red ones which signal potentially dangerous waves. We had a bunch of red flags when we went out there (even if the waves were less than that), and on one day, double red flags. Double reds indicate, "Don't swim!" due to waves or currents or storms or whatever. For us, it was the tropical storm rolling across Florida when we were out there. It didn't affect us, but it did the waves.
G is for grace, because I needed a lot of it on this trip.
H is for hot and humid. What else do you expect from Florida? Not that it's a bad thing – I almost enjoyed it. Compared it to the Dominican Republic more than once, I think.
I is for I don't know what goes here.
J is for Josiah. Because he did a lot of weird things on this trip. Among the highlights were sleepwalking and putting on an extra underwear over his clothes; digging a hole in the sand five foot in diameter and four feet deep; and making those jokes that only Josiah can. I don't honestly remember any of them now though.. sorry.
K is for kart racing. Kaitlin raced on the "big kids'" track this time and did pretty good. Some people take these casual kart drives too seriously though... *cough cough* Megan and Dad *cough*. An example? Some kid two karts in front of me is riding a turn a bit on the outside, and the kart between me and him tries to wedge inside. Just as that's happening, the kart two ahead realizes he's not as inside as he could be and cuts in. They ram into each other and spin out. And there I am at 20 miles an hour right behind them. The impact knocked the sunglasses off my face. The tracks were nice – I won't go into full detail cause that would be boring – and the people were for the most part too. :D
L is for laziness. Both on the trip and my ability to think of anything else to talk about.
M is for mini golf, something we seem to do regularly when we go to the Track (see T). For the last... oh, I don't know, four or five times we've gone mini golfing as a family, Megan has been able to ace the final hole. Now Kaitlin is Megan's age and apparently has stolen her skill. Whereas Megan struggled along with the rest of it, Kait holed-in-one. yay
N is for Nothing comes to mind for this letter.
O is for Oceans. The movie series, not the actual thing (although both are valid). As in Oceans 11, 12, and 13, two of which we watched while we were there. Not bad stuff, except for the glorifying stealing part.
P is for pink pants. Megan bought a beach towel of much pink-ness and decided to wash it with the rest of our clothes. Well, the color leaked. A lot. She owes me a new pair of pants.
Q is for quiet. There was some good of it on this trip, which I'm glad for.
R is for Red Brick Cafe. Gluten free, dairy free pizza. Mmmm. We visited twice. I tried the garlic chicken pizza (because it sounded good) and the bacon cheeseburger pizza (because I'm a MAN. no... really because I was just curious and not really hungry that day anyway). Megan got the same pizza both times. I don't know exactly what it was, but it tasted like french onion soup on a pizza. Pretty good and I highly recommend it.
S is for sand, because B for beach was already taken. Nuff said, though, right?
T is for the Track. A place of kart racing, "bumper boats", mini golf, and other such amusement things. A regular stop for our family, and this trip was no exception. Consider looking at K and M for more details.
U is for umbrella, like the one that we used to block the Sun. One day, the wind picked up under the umbrella and blew it across the beach a solid 300 feet (100 metres) before I grabbed a hold of it and brought it back.
V is for video games, because as one of my friends noted, they weren't absent from this trip. OH WELL, what you gonna do about it? xD Only kidding.
W is for wind, because there was a LOT of it. There I am trying to take a nap under the umbrella with the loose tag, and the tag keeps flapping against the umbrella, making an un-patterned but un-ignorable sound. Keeping me up, that thing did, and I blame it on the wind.
X is for the text face you make when you're upset or something: >.<. I think I used that a lot while I was online, but I'm not exactly even sure.
Y is for WHY did I choose to do this style of blog if I'm going to have five of them I don't know how to fill?
Z is for zzz, as in sleep, because I maintained a better sleep pattern while I was out there than I do here at home.
And there you go. Hopefully, that was entertaining enough for you guys. Next blog already in the works.
Grace and peace!
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