10 Things We Did on Vacation

It's July 10th, so you know what that means . . .time for Meredith's bloggy carnival.

When I took my bloggy break the fam and I headed off to one of our favorite places in the world. . . . St. Simons Island. Here are 10 things we did at our home away from home.

1. Celebrated my sweet boy's 12th birthday in Savannah . . . .

By eating at a house that actually boarded pirates . . . you know . . . back in the day . . .

Walking along the Savannah River . . . .

Seeing this carved out while walking the path along the Savannah River . . . Jon's name . . . and it's spelled correctly . . .

Walking down River Street . . . .

Going up these cool steps where Alec said he felt like the Three Musketeers. Hanna was afraid though.

2. Hanging out with our cousins . . . they actually live down in St. Simons. We were so glad to be able to spend some time with them.

3. Going to Pier Village and seeing this AMAZING sunset. Only God Himself could paint a picture that beautiful.

4. Going to Neptune Park and playing on the new playground and . . . of course. . . climbing the whale . . . .

5. Everyone knows one of the best parts of vacation is eating . . . Our 2 favorite places when we head to the beach are . . . .

The best HOT DOGS EVER!!!!


and . . . Barbara Jeans . . . the best bread and she-crab soup EVER. I could literally make a meal off the bread alone.

Everyone has to have ice cream when they go to the beach.

6. Going to the doctor. Jon was el sicko on vacation. So sick, in fact, that he wanted me to drive all the way to St. Simons and back home. Now in almost 13 years of marriage I don't think I've ever driven to St. Simons . . . I normally sleep. The stinkin' doc told him he had the flu . . . and that they'd seen swine flu down there . . . whatever . . . if Jon was well enough to go to the beach I knew he didn't' have the flu. That's the danger of being a medical transcriptionist for 10+ years. You actually begin to think you're a doctor . . . D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S . . . I even have friends that will call me for medical advice. . . poor things, I think I've convinced them too that I'm a doctor - hee!hee!

7. Going to the beach. We had some fun times at the beach. The first day we took Cookie. I know I haven't blogged very much about Cookie . . .'cause dogs normally don't last 6 months in our house . . . I decided if he made it 6 months . . . then he's blog worthy. But this picture is so cute I couldn't resist. . .

8. Going to the awesome new pool at Neptune Park which included a cool kiddie slide area.

9. Being absolutely lazy . . . probably the laziest I've been in a LONG time. It was GREAT!!! I went to bed at 10:00, woke up at 8:00 AM and then took a nap during the day. I read, watched the coverage on Michael Jackson and even watched the Jackson 5 movie almost 2 times the whole way through.

10. Laughing at this dude . . . this is NOT proper attire . . . somebody needs to tell him . . .

**side note** I had to pretend I was taking a picture of my sister-in-law in order to get a good shot.