The Stacy Family: Beachin' Weather

July 10, 2013

Beachin' Weather

This time last week, the Stacy/Stafford families were on vacation! How come the weeks pass by so quickly when you're on vacation? Has anyone figured this out yet?! Although the weather wasn't the best, we still had a great time! As my dad says, "A bad day at the beach beats a good day at the office" and I must say...I agree!! Since we go to Orange Beach every summer, we tend to be creatures of habit and eat at the same places every time. This trip, we shook it up a little bit and ate somewhere different! I was SO PROUD of us...really. My boss told me about this great little place they ate at on one of their trips so we decided to try it out. And, if you haven't been to The Gulf, you really must go! It was such a laid-back, great place and we loved trying something new for once! Of course, we had to stick to our tried-and-true Louisiana Lagniappe (it was my birthday dinner!) and our little hole-in-the-strip-mall-wall Mexican place...we couldn't give those two up. I even broke down and agreed to have a "shrimp boil" of sorts (I'm not a boiled shrimp kind of girl) but it was fun anyway!

Because the weather wasn't ideal (i.e. rainy, cloudy, windy and even kinda cold) for a few days of our vacay, we headed to The Wharf and the outlet mall to check things out. Being that it was Fourth of July week (ahem, MY birthday week), traffic was awful, horrible, no good, very bad. Though I absolutely loved spending my birthday with my family, I must say that I don't think we will go back on this week in the future. My goodness! Spending two hours in the car, with an almost two year old, is not fun...especially when the trip should take about 20 minutes!!

Overall, we had fun. Despite the cloudy, rainy weather, I did get a little bit of a tan/sunburn so I feel like it was a success on that front. I was able to get in a few shopping sprees. I ate myself into ridiculousness. And, spending six days with my family is always a plus!