Florida Part Deaux

A few weeks ago we made our second trip to Florida this summer.  This time we went to Pensacola for Tom and Mecklin's wedding.  We have never both been away without the boys before so we went back and forth about whether we would leave them behind for the wedding.  We really wanted to enjoy the wedding without having to worry about chasing after the boys and not having to leave early because they were tired but on the other hand we thought it might be fun to go on another beach vacation with them.  After much going back and forth we came up with the best of both worlds!  We brought Aunt Kasey with us.  It worked out really well because we were able to enjoy a little vacation and we were able to have a good, child-free, time at the wedding!

Once again the drive went pretty well.  Nolan pretty much watched movies the entire drive and Henry is content to just chill out in his seat.  This time he had a little more human interaction with Kasey being in the back.  On the way there poor guy only got out of his car seat at lunch time so when we arrived in FL he looked so stiff when he first started walking around.

We stayed at a nice little condo right on the beach.  Like earlier in the summer we found a little sand bar to hang out on when out on the beach.  Nolan didn't "swim" too much this time around but he was happy to run in and out of the really shallow water.  Henry was happy to sit in the really shallow water but he also liked it when we would carry him out into the waves.  He kept pointing out farther and farther.  He also was very brave walking right into the surf.  We had to scoop him out of the water a few times.  He didn't like getting the salt water in his eyes though.



Our little play area



The boys



Family picture

We played putt putt one afternoon.  It was fun but really hot!  Nolan would do his first hit of the ball and then go pick up his ball, place it a few inches from the hole, and hit it in!  He probably ended up with the best score because of his cheating!  Henry just liked to hold onto the golf balls.

There is a zoo not too far from where we were staying so we made a trip there as well.  It looks pretty rinky dink but it ended up being pretty cool.  There are a lot of animals that you are able to touch and feed.  There were even 3 giraffes that would eat right out of your hand.  The only negative was that we kept telling Nolan that we could see a gorilla, as the website for the zoo really promoted that they had one.  Well, as it turns out you can only see the gorilla from the train which would have been an extra cost per person.  Luckily Nolan didn't really know any different and believes that we saw the gorilla.