Brown's Paper Bag: Sitting in the Walmart Buggy.

A few weeks ago, Husband and I went to Destin with a great group of friends from our church. Unfortunately, most of the pictures I have are from the rides to and from the beach. Husband and I had the pleasure of having Josh and Erica ride with us for Ollie's maiden voyage to the beach. We spent the drive listening to music (and sometimes singing along- mostly to Disney) and munching on peppers and all the sugary candies that Erica graced us with.

A trip is not a trip until someone poses with a child's bike and Yoda.

Once we got down to the beach, we were too early to get in to the beach house, and it was too cloudy/windy/gross to hit the beach, so we stopped a restaurant on the water for lunch. Right around this time is when we all got a little crazy.

This bread pudding was probably the icing on the proverbial cake.

We stopped at Walmart to get the remaining supplies we each needed for our food teams, and we got a little silly in the process.

My view from inside the Walmart buggy, looking up at them pushing me around.

After a VERY short while, I was reduced to tears from laughter.

A little back story about the candy on the drive down. I'm not a big candy eater. I typically don't eat a lot of it. It's just never been my cup-o-tea. (I also am not a fan of flowers or bling). So eating as much candy as I did on the drive to Destin probably was more sugar in that short amount of time than I'd had cumulatively in several weeks. Around the time we got to Walmart, I was starting to enter the sugar high/sugar crash phase.

I managed to get only two or three pictures during the actual trip portion of the trip, so the few below are stolen from friends.

Everyone except for Becca, Matt and Anne Marie.

Hubs and I!

Then I got a few pictures our last night, when we all went to Seaside for dinner and general merriment.

Erica, Josh, Husband and I played some night-time Frisbee, after waiting around the pick-up window of a restaurant for 30 minutes for their desserts to be ready (only to find out that they were actually pre-made desserts located in the freezer that we were leaning on). We also walked around Sundog Books and enjoyed the cool breeze of the ocean-front city.

On our way back home, we ate BBQ at Jim-n-Nicks, and found this lovely, horribly misspelled sign:

"Congradulations Graduates of 2013. Come join us for a celbratory dinner"

I don't know about you, but I could look at this view all day.

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Then this past weekend I was lucky enough to take Ollie on her second beach trip! I went to Pensacola with my friend Cynthia from high school. Much fun was had.

We had a bit of situation with our Priceline reservation at our hotel, but it all got worked out, and in the end, we ended up in a much nicer place- one without lots of reviews of bedbugs.

We spent Friday night catching up over steak and beer at Outback Steakhouse, where we probably traumatized the two bartenders. Also- I told the bartender it was Cynthia's birthday and they sang and gave her a free dessert! (Her birthday was two weeks prior, but she wasn't able to celebrate because she was in the middle of law school finals, so it was totally legit.) After leaving Outback, we got checked in to our hotel and sat down by the pool area and sipped on daiquiris while contemplating the meaning of life.

Saturday we got up and hit the beach. We decided to go to the beach out in front of the Flora-Bama because we knew we ended to end up there later in the evening. Without noticing, several hours had passed and it was 2pm. We were starving so we went inside to get some lunch. We ended up sitting with some pretty cool people that we hung out with the rest of the evening.