Trip Report

Oh my, where do I begin???

We left home Monday around 7 a.m. and arrived in Seagrove Beach a little after 5 p.m. I had to drive the whole time while Mr. Beach Crazy tried to sleep after getting off graveyards at 5 a.m. I don't think he likes my driving but I just hate that big truck! :roll: We just took our time and stopped for plenty of bathroom breaks and ate in Pensacola at around 2:00 or 3:00 I guess. I called the realty company and let them know we were still a couple of hours away so they put our keys in a box outside. We ate at a home cooking buffet style place called Granny Cantrell's. We thought it was good and not to mention really reasonable. They had awesome fried green tomatoes. We are from the South, so more greasy food the better! We got to Seagrove Beach and went to pick up our keys from the realty company. The condo was really close to the office, so that was nice. We got to the condo, unloaded and headed to the walkover to see that beautiful water. I was not disappointed in the least. It was everything I thought and more, even with the grass stuff on the beach and green slimy stuff hanging out in the water. There were very few people on the beach and it was so peaceful. The only construction going on was a roofing job on one of the condos in our complex. Not ours, thank goodness! I called Audie around 8:00 and talked to her for a little while. Her phone kept whimping out and cutting us off, but I really enjoyed talking with her and look forward to one day meeting her in person.

Tuesday morning we drove down to the realty company, checked in, paid and we were off to explore! We shopped at Grayton Beach on the corner. I got a cool Grayton beach sweatshirt and hat combo at a little dress shop. We poked around in Kents? furniture and antiques then grabbed a couple of SoWal.com stickers in the General Store and we moved on to Starbucks in Downtown Grayton. Sorry guys, we don't have one here and we love Starbucks! We drove around Grayton a little but not as much as we should have. I never saw Steele Mama's house or the red bar. I will next time for sure. We drove around until the afternoon and went to the beach for a little while. I used the step down method on sunscreen so I started with 30 SPF Tuesday and it was just right for lily white skin. We left the beach, got dressed and went to find food, we ended up at The Crab Trap on the way to Destin. It was wonderful! We had great fast service and a beautiful view right by the window. I had the 1/2 fried shrimp 1/2 fried oyster platter and I promise it was the best fried shrimp I had ever eaten. Big fat white gulf shrimp and yummy oysters. I can taste them now. Hubby had the Captains platter and said everything was just delicious. We brought 1/2 of everything home.

Wednesday we got up, hung out just relaxing, then went down to the beach. I moved up to 15 SPF and it worked just great. No burn. I heard a couple asking where the best burgers were and I told them I had heard at Snapperhead's. The more we thought about big greasy cheese burgers the hungrier we got, so we cleaned up and headed to Snapperhead's. It was around 2:00 or 3:00 so it was virtually empty. You can tell when you walk in the door that it is a good greasy burger place! We ordered onion rings for an appetizer (only $2.50 I might add) and got a huge basket of hot yummy onion rings. The waitress was just precious, she was from De Funiak Springs. We ordered the bacon and english cheddar burgers that came with fries and slaw. Humongous burgers. I ate the whole thing and was sorry until about 3 a.m., when the whatever kind of attack I had in the middle of my chest/stomach going all the way through to my back, finally allowed me to sleep. Anyway, that was my fault. We left Snapperhead's and headed toward Destin. We visited Sandestin and went to one of the golf courses to look around and stuff. We bought some cool shirts from the proshop with The Links emblem and then headed to Silver Sands to shop. At $100 and $142 for the green fees in Sandestin, playing golf there wasn't going to happen. Mr. BC said he's not $142 worth of good at golf! I wasn't much in the shopping mood with my big burger riding around in my middle, so we just scanned the stores at the outlet mall. I got some flip flops at JCrew and Mr. BC got a couple of new colognes from the Perfume store. Guess Men and Kenneth Cole Reaction. Both smell really really good. We headed back to the condo and I went straight to bed with my heating pad. I tossed, whined and moaned while Mr. BC watched TV and stuff. He would come check on me and the only thing that helped the pain was him beating me on my back. I will check into this further to find out what happened to me!

Thursday we headed down to the beach. I stepped down to a 4 SPF because I didn't have an 8. Big huge dumb mistake. We stayed out our usual time about two hours and went to clean up. I kept getting redder and redder as the afternoon progressed. We went to play golf (he not me) and I bought a little package of 30 SPF because I was starting to feel the burn. By the time we left the course. I looked like a tomato! We passed by 331 around 9:00 on our way to Publix and I thought about the Funns being in there whooping it up! There were quite a few cars there and I saw the Sea Bar across the street. We got some steamed shrimp and other stuff from Publix and went home to add it to our Crab Trap leftovers. Mmmmmmm. Not one problem with my stomach but I sure was leery! By this time my sunburn was getting very very tender so I pulled an Audie and vinegared up before bed. It really does make the heat come out, I've always used it.

Friday morning we packed it up and went to the beach one more time to look. After we dropped the keys off, we stopped in Seaside for a minute but nothing was really open yet except Modica's market. We headed for home at a leisurely pace stopping quite a few times and made it home last night around 11:00. Boy did we get doggie kisses all over. We even got a doggie bath before she would finally lay down between us. With her paw holding down my arm I might add, so I couldn't go anywhere.

Thank you so much to the businesses and employees that made our trip pleasant. To the Funns, Cork, Allie, Kurt & Toots, and all the rest - I'm sorry I missed you all but it won't be my last trip to SoWal so we have plenty more opportunities to meet. To SJ, I thought I saw you a couple of times, but I'm still trying to decide if it was you! I'll continue this investigation.;-)

Here are some pics of our trip, I hope you all enjoy them

Beach Crazy in SoWal

Guess what??? Mr. BC said he wanted to come back in September!!!!!!!!!!!!