The One With The Hurricane

Because we have postponed what we call our "Ultimate Florida Trip" twice now due to Covid, we thought a drivable trip to the beach sounded like a great way to have a family getaway. I spent hours picking out just the right condo and getting notes for the area's fun places to eat etc. There wasn't much on the agenda other than beach time and we were excited to have a week to relax.

We got in late Friday evening so Brad made a quick run for essentials to tide us over that we hadn't brought with us...wine, creamer, coffee filters, and cinnamon rolls. ;) Since we got in later than expected we decided the full grocery run needed to wait until Saturday.

Excited for their room in the condo.
It had such fun atmosphere and a beachy flip flop theme.

We enjoyed Saturday morning...

A sweet family that was leaving gave us their floaties.

Lunch Out

I sat down at the beach for the second round (the kids now armed with new boogie boards) as Brad graciously offered to go get the groceries, I checked a message from a friend who asked if I had seen that there was a hurricane coming our way...Brad and I then proceeded to hem and haw over what the right thing to do was. He wisely decided not to get the week of groceries and headed back to try and talk it out while letting the kids play.

These guys love their boogie boards!

Love to fit in chess whenever they can.

Sunday morning we came to the decision that we needed to leave and would not drive all the way home in hopes the hurricane wouldn't hit our area hard and we could go back Wednesday at the latest and get at least two more nights at our condo. We needed to leave by around 4 pm before the rain started, but we loved getting to do two of the fun items on our list so we still felt like it was a vacation! The waves weren't really safe so this morning started at the beach but we didn't feel comfortable with boogie boards because of the strong riptide.

Even the coffee mugs were cute!

You all know how much the Stahl family loves a game up putt putt!

Brad and I refer to this as "The Worlds Most Expensive Ice Cream" but it sure is cute isn't it!?

Yes, that is an entire slice of cheesecake on top of the jar.
They were so yummy and fun!
(If/when you can get over the sticker shock. ;) )

Kinda hard to see
but we were driving towards blue skies.

We headed about 3-4 hours inland where we were disappointed with our hotel pool but tried to stay positive. Lorelei did a bit of virtual school so that she wouldn't have as much school work to make up when we returned. We used those coffee filters a lot more than you would think too. ;) I was very thankful we had packed peanut butter and bread!

Late arrival pb sandwiches.

Coping while Dad works and big sis does school via Zoom.
Music and a book.

Game time after school.

When it became clear Hurricane Sally was going to hit right where our condo was, we went ahead and spent Tuesday driving home. We were so disappointed to miss out on the relaxing time we were so looking forward to and felt was much-needed.