The Southland Life: Beach

Monday, September 12, 2011

Sea Island

T and I took a much need vaca to Sea Island recently
We went with friends, but it was a great place to celebrate my birthday and our anniversary

Love the drive in

You immediately go in to vaca mode

As we kicked backed and sipped our cocktails, we watched their cute pup play

Can you tell she likes water?

and fetching?

Splash!

Time for Round 2

Waiting

I love watching her jump in

She was having a ball!

The house where we stayed has been in our friend's family for years

I love these old Georgia/Florida posters

In college, we always stayed on St. Simon's Island for the UGA/UF game

so many fun memories

The interior of the house is just beautiful

I couldn't help but snap a few photos

Love this guest bedroom

And I'd loooove to have this map

The beautiful living room

What a fantastic space!

And these tabby floors are great

and easy to clean (esp. after sandy, wet feet track through your house)

We enjoyed lots of laughs laying out by the pool Saturday

especially when the men got out the kid's pool toys

Since we were headed to the beach and I have an extreme sweet tooth, I brought some crab and whale cookies along. I think I ate about 10 of these, which is not good when you're prancing around in a bathing suit all day. Obviously, I was on vacation!

And, of course, we had lot a gossip mags to read poolside...

A beach necessity

Chick-fil-a lemonade/vodka cocktail, Star magazine, and a good view = amazing

T had a rough day

That afternoon we headed to the beach club for a pre-dinner drink

The view is beautiful

Beautiful!

And the weather was perfect

While T was grabbing our drink, I wandered around

and found this...

I wish this was my house

I can dream

I love this picture of our friends enjoying the day

It was one of the best afternoons

We couldn't have asked for a better trip to Sea Island

If you ever get the chance to visit, I'd highly recommend going

Plus, the Tibi outlet is there, so that worth the trip all by itself - T says I need to be banned from that place!!!

Hope everyone had a happy weekend!

xx.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Not Fancy, Just Famous 4th!

Hey friends!

We went to the beach, went to the lake, went to Savannah, moved, and came back to the lake...

We headed to Destin for the 4th with four of our best friends!!! It was wonderful!!!

Our 4th of July beach trip began with lunch here

Dobbs BBQ

is a must if you're riding through Dothan!

The coleslaw is too die for - and its served with a sliced pickle on top - yum

And if you're lucky, Mr. Dobbs will come by and show you a magic trick!

We headed to the grocery store upon arrival

We stocked the fridge with plenty of fluids!

Grocery shopping is haaard work!

Really hard!

For dinner we headed Elmo's - a place that serves all you can eat crab legs

My brother and his girlfriend were in Destin, too - so glad they got to come to dinner with us!

Aren't they cute?

My brother ate 4 buckets of crab legs - and he has 0% body fat

figures...

our friends enjoying the live entertainment

btw, what in the world is the dougie?

I'm old

Is this not the most fantastic sign?!?

Not fancy, Just famous

Love it!

The next night we headed out to the Red Bar in Grayton Beach, which is seriously one of my favorite restaurants! Sadly, I forgot my camera, which may have been a good thing since it was more of a party than a dinner!

After dinner we headed to Bud & Alleys - I seriously want to live in Seaside!

The night of the 4th we decided to grill out

We sent the boys to the grocery store again for supplies - do you like our style (putting the men to work?!?) They came back with hamburgers, chicken, french fries, potato salad, regular salad, corn on the cob, apple pie and ice cream - obviously, we didn't go hungry!