Spontaneous Beach Trip

Poor Matt has been so busy all summer with tobacco that he hasn't got to go on any of the trip with Norah Kate and I.  He mentioned a couple weeks ago that he may try to take off at lunch on a Saturday for us to go on a quick trip out of town.  I had been contemplating different places to go, thinking about Macon, or Atlanta to the Georgia Aquarium, or to close beach.

He started texting me at work last Friday wanting to leave Friday night!  Well, for anyone that knows me knows that I am not a spontaneous person... I have to have things planned out, but I thought "what the heck?"  So when I got off work at 7, came home, showered, packed, and loaded up and we pulled out of the drive way at 10:30pm.  We had no reservations and really no idea which direction we were headed... We decided to go to St. Augustine.  We got to St Augustine at about 2 am and started calling places.  Dumb me thought we could find a place no problem... well, after 5 call and "No Vacancies" I started to panic.  I really thought we were going to sleep in the car.  Not to mention NK woke up about this time and was ILL.  So crying baby, sleepy mama and daddy, and no place to stay = no beuno!

Needless to say we found a place at the Holiday Isle.  It was pool front with a king size bed, the lady at the desk said it would be a loud room, but I didn't care, it was a place to sleep.  We got unloaded and Norah Kate was wide awake and we didn't fall asleep until about 4:30... I can't remember the last time I stayed up that late!

We woke up the next morning and went to a breakfast buffet and then to the beach.  It was actually cloudy and a little cool (cool on the beach in August?  I know, right?) but seriously, the water was FREEZING!  Norah Kate LOVED the waves, she would run and chase them and giggle when they splashed her... but after about 30 minutes she wanted to go to the pool.  We spent about an hour in the pool then went in to get showers and go for lunch.

 

We ate lunch at Antonio's New York Style Pizza and it was delish!  Probably the best pizza I have ever had!  Then we went for ice cream of course and took a two hour nap.  Yep, basically all we did this weekend was eat, sleep, and lazy around, but it was awesome.





We went for supper at the Sunset Grille and it was yummy too, but NK was being WILD.  I felt like "that parent" at the restaurant that everyone is staring at.  My child was screaming, banging the A1 bottle on the table, throwing stuff on the floor... she was out of control, but we made it through without any injury to self, others, or property :)

The next morning we slept in again, and watched TV until check out.  It felt so good not to have a schedule or anything to do.  We are probably the only people I know that go on vacation and spend most of our time in the room, but Matt really needed that.  We packed up, checked out, and went to the outlet malls.  It was tax free weekend and everything was having awesome sales so I did some shopping!  I got NK some clothes for fall and for next summer for really cheap!  Matt also racked up at the Polo outlet.

It was a short, sweet, spontaneous trip, but it was great and we had a blast!