Although this post will show up as published on 6/2/2019, I'm finishing it up on 3/13/21. Yikes! Priorities, am I right?...I forgot how therapeutic my blogging could be and will be catching up on vacation posts over the next few weeks.
Here it is. The long-awaited debut of Part 2 of our Destin Beach vacation.
We try to spend some part of every day at the beach actually on the beach. This trip was no different.
We recreate this picture of Chris and the kids almost every time we're at the beach because it reminds us of one of our first family beach trips.
After a day on the beach, we ended our day at the Back Porch.
We had dinner with a beautiful view and the food was delicious and filling. We watched the sunset over the beach while we ate our dinner.
The following day, we enjoyed family fun at the Gulfarium.
Apparently, albino alligators are extremely because of their inability to survive in the wild, but this was the second one we saw in Destin.
They also had a pressed penny machine and you know how much we love them!
After our day at the Gulfarium, we stopped by Sexton's Seafood Market and picked up a Red Snapper and the fixins for a crab boil. It was a bit pricey, but " When in Rome..."
On one of our last nights in Destin, we caved and brought the kids to Fat Daddy's Arcade next to Fudpucker's. They had been begging to go to since our meal at Fudpucker's a few days earlier. If you ask them about the trip years from now, this will probably be the only thing they remember about our vacation. This was definitely the highlight for them, especially when Chloe won $5,000 tickets from a claw machine!
Here they are posing with their final winnings! Ha!
On our last day in Destin, we visited the HarborWalk Village where we ate lunch at A.J.'s, had a virgin Piña Colada, and watched the fishboats come in with their catches.
Afterwards, we drove to the Topsail Hill Preserve State Park. This was by far our favorite beach! On the date the we arrived, there was no entrance fee. (It looks like there is a nominal entrance fee now, but it will be well-worth every penny if you decide to go.) We parked and rode a trolley to the beautiful beach.
We thoroughly enjoyed our full week at the beach. This was the first time in my adult life that I'd been on vacation for longer than a few days. Although it may look like we stayed busy the entire trip, we actually had a lot of down time. The vacation was restful and recharging, just the medicine that we needed.
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