Thursday morning was beautiful.
We spent a few hours outside enjoying the beautiful weather... we swam in the ocean, played on the beach, floated in the lazy river, and just enjoyed ourselves. Then the weather changed. We had just finished lunch and a huge storm fle
w in.We let Elijah sleep for a few hours and decided to take him to Ripley's Aquarium... we had gotten free tickets from the time-share presentation we had gone to on Monday. We were thinking it would be wonderful and amazing; however, we were sorely disappointed. Either we missed something or it's just not that great.
Then we decided to be really bold. Elijah's sleep patterns were WAY out of whack during vacation. Despite our best efforts to keep him on a fairly normal schedule, he was up way later than normal and then slept a little later than usual. So when we decided to take him to a miniature golf course for the first time, we were taking a huge risk. Anyone who has ever raised a boy through the toddler years (and probably girls, too) knows that when they're sleep deprived they can be real terrors. (Shoot, they can be that way when they're NOT sleep deprived just because they're toddlers.) Anyway... things started out great when we first hit the green. :) However, after about three or four holes, Eli's patience continued to wear thinner and thinner. Needless to say we didn't finish all 18 holes, but we did have a little bit of fun.
We stopped at Angelo's on the way back to the condo... not like the Angelo's steak house in Panama City Beach that we're used to, but it was really good food. The service was slow but the food was tasty. Then it was "home" to bed.
Friday dawned bright and beautiful as well. I think it might have been the most beautiful day of all.
We went to the beach (of course), swam, played in the sand, floated in the lazy river, swam in the pool, and enjoyed our last full day on vacation. We had seen a pizza place earlier in the week called East of Chicago and decided to go there for lunch. It had a very full pizza buffet. I'm not a fan of buffets but this was yummy. Plus they had games, kind of like Chuck E. Cheese, so Elijah loved it even more.
Once we'd all eaten our full, used up all our game tokens, and redeemed Elijah's tickets for cheap prizes, we headed back to the condo for nap time. Traffic was rather frantic. As we were sitting at a red light, a truck rammed us from the rear end. We had only had our car for 5 weeks, so my first response after I knew everyone was okay was, "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" Jason and I were stiff for a few days but don't appear any worse for the wear. Our car... not so much.
We finally got our naps then went to the outlet mall down the road followed by dinner at Big Daddy's steakhouse. Yummo!
More later.
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