Back in mid-August, we enjoyed a fabulous week-long beach vacation in the little slice of paradise that is Rosemary Beach, FL. It's located on Florida's gulf coast on the scenic Route 30A. The sand is white, the water is crystal blue, and the town center is so picture perfect it seems like a movie set. Everything in RB is within a 5 minute walking distance from the town center which is filled with cute shops, unique restaurants, and bikes in place of cars. We hardly started our car up the entire week, opting instead to stay close and use the boardwalks and pathways intertwining through RB to get to our destinations.
Sean and Mason drove there with all of our stuff, stopping in Louisiana on the way to stay with my grandma one night, and I flew with Harrison. The intention was to put as little travel stress as possible on the baby, but after a long delay and eventually cancelled flight, Sean beat us there! It was worth the wait though, and thankfully our flight home was uneventful. In the future we've decided to all stick together!
My Aunt Patsy was able to join us from Mississippi and we loved having her there! In addition to being fun to be around, she cooked every meal (she's a chef so we were quite spoiled!), watched the boys during naps/bedtime so we could head out alone if we wanted, and helped with cleaning and laundry! Thanks, Mimi!
We've never been the type to return to the same place year after year, opting instead to discover new places, but this might just be the place that changes that mentality! It was the perfect vacation.
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| Our very first view of the beach. Love at first sight! |
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| The boys first morning on the beach. Harrison went for that water like a sea turtle at birth! |
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| Our home for the week! The bottom pics are of the loggia, which is an indoor/outdoor room. The home has changed quite a bit, but it was the HGTV Dream Home in 1999! |
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| It was the perfect place for us and Mason loved sleeping in his hallway bunk bed retreat. Bottom right is one of the many pathways through RB right off our house! |
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| One of my favorites pictures of all time! |
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| I'm so glad I got them to agree to matching trunks! |
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| Fun in the sun |
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| We rented a cabana and two chairs and both boys fell asleep out there! |
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| Pictures taken before the one dinner we had out. The rest were all cooked by Aunt Patsy! (the matching navy/nautical look was unplanned - obviously a favorite look in our family!) |
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| We did not get ONE decent picture of the two of them together in their matching outfits but I'm happy with the individual ones we got! |
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| I love his zest for life |
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| Some outtakes! Still cuties even if they don't look at the camera at the same time. :) |
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| We love this nugget so much! |
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| Clockwise from Top L: 1)An outing at the pool one day, 2) date night, 3) one of our delicious dinners (grouper, zucchini from the local farmers market, fresh salad, shrimp cocktail, crab cakes, and wine!, 4) In our PJ's at the do-nut truck early morning before they sell out! |
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| Clockwise from Top L: 1) One of the piers we took to the beach, 2) Mimi at sunset, 3) daily hole digging, 4) venturing out to explore Seaside one afternoon |
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| Until next time, Rosemary Beach! |
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