Our only picture together the whole weekend! Ooops! :)
Friday morning we arrived in FL by 9:15, so we had the whole day. We walked around, which didn't last long with this 6 month preggo lady, ate some lunch, and then cooked ourselves at the pool. It was devine! We went out to dinner at this great place that was within walking distance of our hotel, Casablanca Cafe. It was delicious and we were able to sit outside and overlook the ocean, and get lots of good people watching in. It was so nice!!
Our hotel, The Atlantic
It is turtle egg hatching season, so they put these covers on the lamp posts so the light doesn't shine on the beach to scare the turtles. How cute is that? :)
Saturday we cooked some more at the pool, but didn't last TOO long in the sun because we had done a little too much the day before. (I know Gran, don't judge me...we did put on sunscreen too!) We had another great dinner at a place called Truluck's.
Beautiful sunrise, which was the view from our room!
Sunday we decided we needed a break from the sun and went down to Las Olas Boulevard, which has a lot of cute shops and restaurants. We shopped around, ate a yummy lunch, got ice cream, and then went back to the hotel. We sat on our balcony, over looked the ocean, and decided we would just try a local pizza shop for dinner that night. It was SO good! There was a reason we had to wait 30 mintues for 3 slices of pizza. :) After dinner we went to this cute little ice cream shop, yes more ice cream, and it was delicious too!
Looking at the beach and the ocean from our pool.
Love this sunrise, it was so pretty!!
Monday we were able to spend a couple hours at the pool in the morning before it was time to pack up and go. We were ready though, we missed our Reagan.
We were not exciting at all...we were in bed by 9 every night, except on Sunday I did watch the ACM's until 11!! ha :) It was just what we wanted though a nice, relaxing, quiet getaway. It was wonderful! It's always nice to just getaway with the husband too without the parenting and hustle and bustle of everyday life.
One little scare came on our flight home...we flew Southwest and over the weekend they had a plane lose a piece of its roof mid-flight, affecting the cabin pressure and an emergency landing to take place. Needless to say we were worried if we would get OUT of FL. We did, just fine, until it came to landing in Raleigh. We were decending and the plane was shaking like crazy, due to the high wind. As we were approaching the runway the plane was rocking all over the place and we were just about to touch down when the pilot pulled the plane back up into the air right away because we weren't balanced I guess. SLIGHTLY scary! I have had this happen once before, but not because of wind, on a flight. So we circled around again and as we were coming down the second time, it was just as shaky. SO scary. Keith's fingers were white from me gripping his hand so tightly and my palms were dripping with sweat. I just kept saying "please don't go into pre-term labor, please don't go into pre-term labor." Well we landed, but it wasn't a smooth landing and I swear we were on the left wheels only when we came down. We quickly did balance out though and the whole plane errupted into applause. At baggage claim someone that was sitting on the left side of the plane said that when they looked out the window the wing was within inches of touching the runway....let's just say I'm glad we were on the right side!! ...and thankful to be on the ground and home safe and sound!
We had a great time! We were home in time to see our Reags and have a wonderful dinner cooked by my mom and John. I don't know who had more fun this past weekend, Mum-Mum and Pop-Pop or Reagan...probably a tie! It is so nice to know that Reags is in such good hands while we are gone. :) Then just as quickly as our trip sprung up on us, it is over and it was back to work today...yuck!
Ahh...the sun looks amazing. What a great weekend! Glad you were able to enjoy some time to yourselves!
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