Travel Tuesday

As you are reading this, no matter how early, I'm on my way home from the beach. We had the BEST time and plan to do it again next year. They want to include their moms, but we'll see about that. The whole point of this trip was just me and my granddaughters! I wanted this one-on-one time with them. 

SO MUCH FUN! And we didn't even do a few of the things I had planned. I made pedicure appointments, but when we got there, they didn't have us down. Could be I made the appointments at the wrong nail salon. I didn't know it was a chain!

Another thing they missed--Sunday was the day they were to go shopping. I had planned to surprise them with some money to spend. Since Victoria and Elizabeth weren't going to be there, Morgan and Jordan opted to spend the day on the beach. We'll do it next year!

Also, we didn't have any time to play poker. Since Victoria and Elizabeth had to leave on Sunday, all of our spare time was spent working on our little project. 

They turned out so cute!!

Once you open the suitcase, it's an accordion, little scrapbook. It's interesting with a little shaker pocket, flip-ups, fold-outs and library pocket. The girls each figured out their own tiny layouts. Each one is individually their style. 

Victoria picked purple.

Elizabeth chose aqua.

Morgan chose chartreuse.

Jordan picked turquoise.

As for mine--I was so busy printing pictures, I didn't have time to finish. Maybe I"ll have it finished to post on Saturday.

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from our trip.

Elizabeth and Jordan had hair wraps. They are supposed to last a couple months.

Elizabeth and me at "Justin's Place"--Papa Surf's. It's owned by Brian Kelly (formerly with Florida/Georgia Line), Jason Aldean, some football player and Justin's boss. Justin went down to do an assessment after they opened. The girls decided that it's going to be known as "Justin's Place!" We love our Justin!

The girls bought beaded key chains at Alvin's.

There was ice cream involved! Three times for the girls, once for me. 

There was plenty of pool time.

We went down for sunset on the beach....

...with the "snacklebox!"

Morgan has the longest arms for the BEST selfies!

After sunset on the beach, we went back to the pool for a night swim. We had to take several pictures to get one that didn't make me look like a "little person." This is me standing on my tippy toes!

I had to snap this shot. This is why I say that our place is really only good with 4 people. The 5th person is sort of in "no-man's land!" This is Elizabeth's pile in the dining room!

One last selfie outside of The Perfect Pig (where we had brunch) before Victoria and Elizabeth headed back home.

A beautiful sunset from our porch. Kind of makes going down to the beach hardly worth it. I love the backdrop of the beautiful palm trees. 

We spent our last day on the beach before heading to the pool. We finished with dinner at Stinky's Fish Camp. Then we finished a 5 episode series called Sirens on Netflix--really good!*****

So, that's a "wrap!" Our first annual Grammy/granddaughters trip to the beach! I hope we can make it happen again next year!

*****Update: we spent about a half hour discussing the ending and decided we didn't really like it after all. But we agreed it did get us talking and speculating. Knowing what we know now, would we have watched it?? NO!! You've been warned!