Gulf Shores, Alabama

We came home from Vegas at 645 Saturday morning, and we headed to Gulf Shores by 1pm!  It's a 4 and a half hour drive from our house.  We typically go toward the Destin/Fort Walton Beach area of the gulf shore, so this was our first time on the Bama side of the gulf.  Our good friends own a condo down there and this was our first time to be able to check it out!

Because it was October when we went, it wasn't blazing hot but it wasn't perfect beach weather either.  It was a little chilly.  (or chilly by Southern standards)

Their condo is right near the beach, they have a great view of it as well!

Their condo is in the building on the left right above the guy in the grey hoodies head, which his ear is right where the actual condo is!

We were so exhausted from all the traveling but it was SO worth it!

Saturday morning it wasn't as gloomy as the night before. All the boys got in the water.  I don't mind the beach water but it was a little too cold for me!

In the distance you can see the oil rigs, Cale said "next time we come we should stay at one of those water hotels" we all died laughing!

Almost everyone in their condo's has a beach view!

He loves being buried!

I enjoyed getting to read more of my book!

I don't know what I was trying to catch him doing, but he caught me and gave me a face!

We washed up and the the owners needed to make a run to home depot for renovation supplies so we made a quick stop at the outlets and the guys went on to home depot.  (the couple that owns it uses one week in the off season to clean, update, renovate the condo for the next season - we visited them when they were just starting their projects)

She truly is my discount and deal finding shopping buddy!!  We got some great stuff!

The guys picked us up sooner than we wanted them to, so we made them sit in the back with the new tools and flooring!

After dinner we went and walked along the beach to hunt ghost crabs.

You can kinda see the little ghost crab.  We didn't keep them but Cale had a great time catching and releasing.

Dang he let me get close!

All the little skitter marks the crabs make going to hide!

We bought phase 10 at Walmart and taught Cale how to play.  It's a cut throat game when you play with me!  

They played their hand together.  Cale held the "phase" and Lisa held the discards.

We kept joking that because they were playing fair and not nasty, that God was on their side with the cards they kept getting!  Every time they had a hand full of wilds!!!

LEGOLand Florida - Day 2 {Water Park}

DAY TWO!!  This day we decided to ONLY do the waterpark and spend most of our day in there.  We got to the park at about 915 in the morning. 

 Able to get a picture without a lot of people in the background.

The wagon was FULL this day.  I had to bring the swim bag.  Normally this flower bag stays fully packed and all we have to do is add towels and swim suits.  I forgot to check for goggles.  So I ended up having to purchase some to the tune of $37 in the gift shop (ouch!) but now they have extra pairs in the bag.  The goggles that are normally in there must be hanging out in the trailer somewhere!

 LEGOLAND is very eco friendly.  They had recycle bins right next to the trashcans to encourage people to do the right thing.  If something was made from recycled material they let you know!  It took 800 milk jugs to make this bench!

 Waterpark opened 30 minutes after the main park.  Cale wanted to ride the VR game for a 3rd time so they stopped there and we got in line (head of the line baby!) for the waterpark.

 Kennedie and me stopped and purchased two more blind bags for them to trade.  She opened this one and didn't want to give it up! She didn't trade this one!

 What Cale opened in his blind bag.

 Finally got through the gate and went to the entrance!

 We dashed straight for the chairs and found a place in the shade with a good view of everything going on.

 Not a lot of people rushed the gates so we were able to get really good seats!

We even had a picnic table RIGHT in front of us!  It was awesome!

  This is why we opted to bring our own food in!  I am NOT paying $11 for two small tacos (because I saw people walk away with them and they weren't anything spectacular)  on the waterpark day we brought in stuff to make sandwiches.

 Wave pool

 This was as we were leaving around 4 it filled up quite a bit.  As you can see the clouds were rolling in, we did get sprinkled on a little bit and used the stadium blanket to cover the wagon as we left the park.

 Cale spent a lot of his time at this boat race water table.  If he wasn't in the wave pool or in the lazy river with one of us he was here!

 Leaving the water park.

 The lazy river as we were leaving.  They have lego bricks floating along with you, and some of the rafts have little building pads to build on as you float.

 Little kid wading pool

 When we first got to the waterpark Cale found someone with ballerina fairy batman.  He'd been looking for it for his sister all weekend.  She didn't want to trade him the firecracker guy so he ended up trading this again.

 In the center of the main park they had a shaded area for little kids with duplo blocks in it.

 Stopped and got a funnel cake.  This was he only food we actually purchased at LEGOLAND while we were in the park all weekend.

 Kennedie collects pressed pennies so we stopped and got one on our way out.

 Cale traded one last time with the guy that was guarding the hotel entrance.