{I feel like I don’t even know how to write so much from the past … it is way hard}
About a week after we spent the short weekend in Charleston Kyle and I boarded a plane to Sanibel Island, FL to spend a few days with my mom and dad who were on their long vacation away from the real world. Needless to say: for me, after a summer of traveling and a crazy workload, the break from the real world for me was much needed.
We had a night flight out of the airport so maximize the sun and pool time. After an “adventurous” trip to the airport – I forgot my phone at home on the counter, 20 miles later in Atlanta rush hour traffic, I turned the car around to go get it. Then we had MAJOR traffic until I realized I could drive in the HOV lane. Needless to say – we arrived with plenty of time after I had about 5048059 freak-outs about missing the plane. {FYI – the security line on a Wednesday night in Atlanta is nonexistent}. After learning that Kyle LOVES the moving walkways and turned them into a toy, we had dinner at Café Intermezzo at the airport. I had never eaten at any of their Atlanta locations and I was not really all that impressed when we went – but it was still “fun” to feel like an adult who flies out at night and has dinner and wine before boarding a plane. Lame. I know.
But – if I had to sum the trip up we pretty much: sat by the pool. read our books. drank wine. and ate food. I read 3 books. 2 of which I recommend (“Summerland” by Elin Hilderbrand & “Fly Away Home” by Jennifer Weiner) and one that I recommend not ever picking up, too slow and boring (“There’s No Place Like Here” by Cecelia Ahern). I also learned that I have the most uncontrollable obsession with Candy Crush. I never had enough lives and kept swapping between my iPhone and the iPad. …. that my friends is when you know your obsession is out of control …..
Meet our view and the huge frog that tormented me. He was flapping his little legs in the very spot that I would hang out and read my book.
We spent the Friday morning we were there on a boat and in the air parasailing. We slathered ourselves in sunscreen only to be 100% shielded by some overhanging thing and we got zero sun – which was kinda my mission. Boat = major sun time. I had been parasailing before and knew what to expect and it was Kyle’s 1st time ever parasailing so we thought it would be cool. Well – it was cool, but overpriced and kind of meh. we didn’t see too much from the air – some fish, a stingray, nothing to write home about. Maybe it is one of those things that you just do once and then you do not need to do it again, but hey … we did something with our trip other than lay by the pool and do nothing. And we got some pretty cool pictures out of it. :)
And of course – we got to take Kyle J to the staple of the Vines Family Vacations – The Lazy Flamingo and as always it was good. Too much food – but good. Honestly – we did not do much. We did was we set out to accomplish – relax, get some fun, and just take a breather from the fast paced world that is our life. We learned that we are two very very white kids and pretty much used 3 bottles of sunscreen {sorry mom and dad} and a boat load of aloe due to my inability to put sunscreen on my back. And it was sad to leave the trip. it only confirmed that we need to vacation more often and get away from the world – if only we had a little more money. Wah Wah Wah. But most importantly, we check something off my 30 before 30 list. Kyle J to Sanibel!! And he loved it and will be back in 2014 …. if we are invited back.
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