Spring is always a little crazy around here. Work gets busy and when work gets busy I feel like our whole life is chaos. Add in Barrett playing ragball for the first time and I know it's going to be wild. So before everything gets wound up Patrick and I decided to sneak away for a long weekend at our friends Tony and Carla's house. My parents graciously agreed to keep the kids so we could enjoy the weekend just adults. (I'm forever grateful to both sets of our parents who are always willing to keep our kids. I know not everyone is so fortunate to have family around so I try not to take it for granted.)
We got there around 8:00 Friday night and headed straight to dinner. I couldn't wait to eat some seafood! After dinner we went to the Florabama to have a famous "Bushwacker". While we were there this girl walked up and I knew I knew her from somewhere but could not put my finger on it. She was five feet away from us most of the night. I finally realized she was on Big Brother but I couldn't remember her name to save my life. I couldn't remember which season she was on either. I tried to google it and I couldn't come up with anything useful. We decided to go to a different part of the bar and I finally remembered her name (Meg). I was going to go back and talk to her but I never did. I'm almost positive it was her. Patrick went to close out his tab and he said when he walked by some guys were talking to her saying they recognized her. I wish I would have said something to her but I didn't.
After that excitement we headed back to the house to hit the hay.
Saturday was supposed to be a beautiful day so we loaded up the boat and headed out. Our first stop was the FloraBama (again) for (another) bushwacker. Then we cruised all day. We stopped for lunch at Pirates Cove. It was a little cool out but it was a beautiful day!
Boys and their toys.
After lunch we headed to an island, parked the boat and hung out for the rest of the day! The island is home to the abandoned Fort McRee. It was abandoned before the civil war. It was a neat place to explore.
I was so glad I took my real camera because I was able to grab some really beautiful images.
After we spent some time exploring we had a campfire and watched the sunset. It was so much fun and so cool. Once the sun set, we made our way back to get the boat out of the water and find some dinner.
Sunday we got up and it was cool and cloudy and windy so we decided to hang out at the house. We went out for lunch and then laid around and relaxed. It was so nice. We decided to do a shrimp boil for dinner and it was delicious. We spent the rest of the evening watching movies and hanging out. We were already dreading going home.
We woke up this morning and got packed and headed home. We were sad to leave but so excited to see the kids. I'm so thankful that Patrick values time away just the two of us. We try to do this at least once a year. I also try to let one of our parents keep the kids over night once a month or every other month. Its good for the kids to spend the time with their grandparents and its good for us too. We had the best time. We'll never be able to thank Tony and Carla for the hospitality they show us each time we come visit. I basically just invite myself down and they welcome us with open arms. We can't wait to go see them again.
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