Destin 2015

What a week we had in Destin.  My original plan was to blog a few times this week about everything we did.  But by the end of the day I was so tired each night it didn't happened.  So instead I am going to try and cram everything into one post.  Lol. We started the week with perfect weather.  The first few days at the beach were perfect.  The water was pretty shallow far out and there was no undertow.  So the kids could venture out far without us having to worry.  Of course Caden spent most of his time trying to see what he could find under the water.  There were a ton of little fish so the kids made it their mission to catch them.  Paige loved riding on her boogie board over the waves.  We did have one little exciting thing happen.  Paige and I were out pretty far just wading around and floating around on her board.  All of a sudden she jumped up on her board and wouldn't get off.  I asked her what was wrong and she told me something big and scratchy just bumped her legs.  I told her it was probably nothing but she was really scared and would not get off.  I had just gotten the words out of my mouth when I saw a something long with a big shadow swim in front of us.  I kind of froze.  There were some people next to us and they saw it too.  One lady yelled what is that?!  Everyone started to scatter and Paige was climbing me like a cat.  We all made our way back to the beach and just like that whatever it was was gone.  I told myself it was just a really big fish.  Lol. The people next to us said it was a small shark.  Needless to say Paige didn't want to go out that far again.  Too much Shark week made us all jittery.  Ha! 

We did the usual things we love like hunt for crabs at night.  But this year we did something new and scheduled a fishing trip for the kids.  I had read great comments about Captain Robby and he didn't disappoint.  He was really friendly and even Paige warmed up to him.  He took us to some great hotspots and the kids pretty much caught fish the entire time.  Both the kids and the adults that went said it was one of the highlights of the trip.  As a bonus we saw dolphins and a huge stingray jump out of the water.  Even Captain Robby said he had never seen a stingray do that before.  He said something must have been chasing it.  It was a great day. 

When we needed a break from the water we ventured out and ate at some great places.  They also have a place called Maragritaville.  It is kind of like a bigger Kemah Boardwalk.  Caden has been wanting to zip line since last year so we had to go back so he could do it.  He loved it.  He is my brave one for sure.

Of course we went back to crab island.  It is Caden's favorite thing to do there.  We came back with tons of hermit crabs and the kids love the jet skis.  Later that night we all went bowling.  I just love that bowling ally.  Non smoking and such cute decor.

There was a new place that opened that had an arcade, putt-putt golf and a ropes course.  Paige and Caden decided they wanted to do the ropes course.  Caden loved it but poor Paige had a rough time.  We quickly realized after the kids started that they had little instruction and that it would be difficult for Paige to navigate on her own.  She made it half way and I knew it was more then she had bargained for.  Poor thing got stuck and she was shaking like a leaf.  When we realized she was crying Jimmy got one of the workers attention and they went up and followed her the rest of the way.  I felt so bad for her.  But everyone cheered her on and in the end she said she hated it but she was glad she tried.  Thank goodness the rest of the night went smoothly and Paige even one the jackpot of 1000 tickets on a game.  

We had a wonderful week.  I am already looking forward to next year!