Get away Weekend

after spending the 4th with family and friends we left Little Girl with my in-laws and took Golden Boy to my parents and headed to the beach.

The drive wasn't all that bad until right outside of Destin. It took us over an hour to go 8 miles. 

Thankfully McGuire's was right when you cross the bridge in Destin and that was on the list of places to eat so we stopped there. 

An Irish Wake was for sure on the list of things that we wanted to try and we wanted to try the beer sampler too so we split an Irish wake.

it's a lot to take in if you have never been there. not your typical Beachy restaurant. a dark bar but neat. after finding our seat i headed to the bathroom. i looked to the right and saw Men on the door and then looked to the left and saw Women and headed into the one that said Women. The two huge urinals should have told me that i was in the mens bathroom but we had been driving and i need to go so i went into the stall. after washing my hands and about to head out a man looked in asking if it was a womens room? i told him i thought so but was beginning to think other wise. when i stepped out and looked at the door i saw my mistake, 

absolutely no 

WOMEN

allowed

oops i missed that.

we were very hungry so we ordered an appetizer: Boxtys, think mashed potatoes deep fried.

AMAZING 

the brown bread with butter was delicious. i could have licked the putter off of the bread alone. when i was a kid we use to go to a restaurant called steak and ale and they would bring out a brown bread like this. i use to call it chocolate bread. 

the .18 cent bean soup was very good

and we split the lamb chops, which came with onion rings, some type of cheese stuffed pepper and two sides. The Hubby wanted Irish Fries and i got asparagus. 

our beer sampler was just ok. if we went back i would just get the red. that one was my favorite.

My hubby kept telling me that the condo was across the street from the beach. it was a street in the sense that cars could drive on it but it was more like a walk way. this path lead us there.

Sunset #1

as we were sitting on the beach and then at this restaurant for lunch (which was right by our condo, we walked) we said why would anyone go to any other beach. it was just beautiful.

this was our first full day there. after we ate lunch we loaded up the chairs and umbrella and headed down for a day at the beach.

we ran out for a pizza dinner in time to get back for sunset.

 Pizza dinner was at Fat Clemenzas

dessert at Culvers, a frozen custard place

and back on the beach for Sunset #2

our last full day there we headed to the beach early and spent some morning time there. i got to read some too. We were discussing again how amazing the water was and the couple that was sitting next to us said that it was their second day at Destin. They were from up north and had gone to Cozumel and said Destin was better (we agreed)

They actually had rented an Air B&B in Ft Walton but said it was too seaweedy so they came into Destin and happened to find the small section of beach that we were on.

Sunset #3