Gulf Shores Vacay Part 2

Are you ready for part 2 of our Gulf Shores Vacay recap!? Besides visiting the zoo one day, we mostly hung out on the beach and by the pool at the condo. Steven really enjoyed playing in the sand. He didn't like the ocean too much, but it was pretty cold. We did make him dip his toes in the water. Big Steve loved swimming in the ocean. He would swim out so far!

 

Fun in the sun!

Cheeseburger!

My handsome beach dudes.

One day we busted out water guns to play with on the beach. That was a big hit! Steven also loved knocking down other people's sand castles...luckily we were usually the first ones there and the sand castles were from the night before. Stinker.

Another really cool thing that happened on the beach one day was we saw a big flock (group?) of stingrays! There was a sandbar close to the shore and they were swimming back and forth over the sandbar. It was so cool to see them in the wild like that! It was a bit freaky to me at first but they pretty much avoided us. Steve, of course, tried to chase them and touch them (being a stingray expert he is, ha!).

 

 

One morning it was too cold to go to the beach first thing so we went to the Tanger Outlet Mall. OMG, it was amazing. I am a shopaholic and it was like heaven for real. This place was HUGE. They had so many good outlets, LOFT, Toys R Us, Children's Place, COACH, etc etc etc. It was awesome. Unfortunately we were only there for a few hours when Steven got sick. He had been sick on and off that entire night before but you could really tell he was not feeling well as we were walking around. Steve and I ended up taking him to Urgent Care. They just recommended Dimetap and Benadryl/Tylenol. Steven ended up feeling better after a big nap later that day so that was good!

 

Another night my parents let us have a "date night". It was SO nice! I should have taken a picture of the cute restaurant we went to but I do have a picture of the food we ate. Which was SO delicious by the way!

 

I had crab stuffed flounder. OMG so good!

Steve had Oysters...gross. But he liked them!

 

Key Lime Pie for dessert. YUM!

 

Another night, my parents went out on a date and we went out as a family. We ate at this cute place called Shrimp Basket where they had an outdoor patio. It was really fun.

 

Lucky lady with these dinner dates!

We walked to some souvenir shops nearby and Steven had a blast playing around in them. He's still at that golden age where he can play with toys in stores and have fun with it for a few minutes but his attention span is still short so you don't have to buy it for him. Its pretty awesome. ;)

 

The giant octopus souvenir place! ha!

Afterwards we walked to an ice cream place. Steven decided he loves mint chocolate chip ice cream like his momma! So we got him his own cone. You can imagine it was very sticky and messy but very cute too!

Twinkies!

Yum!

The last night we tried to all go out to dinner but that was a bust. The place was gross and the food was not good and Steven was a hot mess. Oh well. I think we were all ready to go home at that point. We did get this cute family photo off the balcony at our condo though!

 

Overall it was a GREAT trip! We all had so much fun and Steven had a blast with his grandparents. We are so lucky to have been able to take this trip with them. And we will remember it for a long time!