MUCH longer than anticipated. There was a wreck on I-75 so we ended up taking back roads all the way to Drew's house in Abbeville. For those of you who are unfamiliar with South Georgia, it's wayyyyyy down there. We had originally planned on staying the night there to help break up the ride from Atlanta to St. Petersburg, but it didn't end up working out. Long story short, after cooking out with Drew and his family we made the trip down to St. Pete from South Ga in about 7 more hours.
For those of you who don't know Jayson and I, we are Starbucks addicts. Him more so than me. We stopped for coffee TWICE on the way down that night. Remember we were running off 3 hours of sleep the night before and Jayson ran a 10K that morning! Not even the coffee helped me; I started dozing off right as we hit Ocala.
We finally arrived at Dustin and Zee's house around 1am. Or poor baby had been asleep for the last 4 hours and we just knew his hips had to be SO sore from riding in the car seat that long. We were so excited to finally be at our destination and see Dustin and Zee, but we were so exhausted that we ended up going to bed within about 30 minutes from unloading the car.
Their house in St. Petersburg is the epitome of a precious beach house. The bed in our room was a fab little fold away bed that came out of the wall. It took up the whole floor in the room. The only downfall was that we had no where to put Miles' pack n play! He has NEVER once slept in the bed with us, as we have been strict on the no co-sleeping since he was born. We figured one night would be fine, but boy were we wrong! He tossed and turned and took up the majority of the room in the bed! Just as quickly as J and I would fall asleep, Miles would kick us or punch us in the face! It was quite comical (looking back on it)...the baby never once woke up! I'm glad someone was able to sleep that night! Here are some of the only pics I took of Miles in his Fourth of July shirt!!!
The next morning, a visit to our green mermaid friend was definitely needed!!
We spent the day exploring the area. We drove to check out the beach area where our resort was and my lovely GPS took us SEVERAL miles out of the way. We made sure to park and check out the beautiful beach view!
We were absolutely FAMISHED by this time so we decided to make our way back towards Dustin and Zee's house. The live 5 minutes from the Tampa Bay Rays stadium! I have ever seen an indoor baseball stadium before! It would have been awesome to see a game there!! Definitely next time!
We decided to grab lunch right by their house, which happened to be one of our favorites!
Our munchkin got so good sitting in the high chair at restaurants. Everyone always comments on how well behaved he is!
After lunch we headed back to the house because the 3 of us desperately needed naps. We were able to rest for a little while before our awesome hosts got off work and it was time to get ready for supper!!
Dinner that night was a cute little place that sat over the ocean called Salty Rim. Their slogan was "everything from cancun to key west".
The food was good, the music was great, and our company was out of this world! Dustin is Jayson's baby brother and Zee is his FABULOUS girlfriend. We haven't seen them in a long while and they have never met Miles so it was so awesome to be able to catch up!
The live music that night was a local country artist called the Caribbean Cowboy. He sounded JUST like Randy Travis!! Someone requested a RT song and the crowd went wild! J and I love country so he was right up our alley!
Here are some more pics from dinner!
AMAZING rum punch! It had every flavor of Malibu!!
After dinner, we returned to D & Z's to relax and put baby to bed. This time, we made him a giant pallate on the floor by the side of the bed and he was able to sleep SO much more comfortably (and so were we!). J and I stayed up late with Dustin and Zee watching a couple of episodes of Tanked! I had never seen the show but I soon became hooked!
I think this post is long enough, so ill end here! Tune in for part III!
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