Road Trip! Day 1 - Destin, FL

Nels finally took three days off of work!  So we went on a road trip to Florida!  Yay!

Sept 17 Saturday - Day 1

We packed and loaded Goldie (our van).  Even though this was only a four night trip, our van was stuffed...with stuffed animals!  I didn't put a limit on the kids and they brought whatever they wanted to.  Haha.  Isak brought his two biggest stuffed animals, Sam the elephant and Joe the Giraffe.  Kira brought Maui - her pineapple squishmallow and her 3 horses - flower, rainbow and brownie.  Sofie brought her Big Panda and her Big Kitty squishmallow.  Noah brought his big Teddy Jon, sloth, monkey and dino.  Plus, everyone's pillows - including my three pillows!  Nels didn't bring a pillow or stuffed animal.  

We left around 10 am.  I drove first...

We made it about 2.5 hours and then everyone was hungry and needed to go to the bathroom.  We stopped at Cullman, AL and ate at McAlister's.   

We ate outside and took pictures while we waited for our food.

Check out Isak's sandwich!

Sofie's pizza.  McAlister's has a nice menu.

Happy to have Dad along for this trip.

Then Nels drove the rest of the time.  We listened to Ramona's World for a little while in the car.  We arrived at Destin around 6:45 p.m.  We stayed at the Home2 by Hilton.  We ate dinner at FudPucker's.  A very cool restaurant with Live Alligators!

While we waited for our food the kids played with hula hoops.  Even Noah figured it out. 

This is blurry.  But Isak hula hooped with 5 hoops!!

There was even a playground for the kids to play on!

And Alligators to watch...

We liked these cute little gators.

And baby ones.

Nels and I shared the chicken nachos.  We chose not to try the fried alligator!  

Noah, of course, had mac and cheese.  And Kira had grilled cheese.  Kira and Noah shared with Sofie.  Isak and I shared a burger.  We all got cute cups to take with us.

We all got full and enjoyed a unique place.  Then we went back to the hotel and got settled for the night.