Palm Island Day 1&2

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I Know!!!!!!
I have not posted since what, JUNE? Would you like to know why? Well I have been super busy in June and the first of July! I went to Florida twice, once you already know about as I was blogging on the I-Pad then I was home for like 2 or 3 weeks and left again to go to Florida again with a family to babysit! We went to a part of Florida I have never been to and I was wondering if any of yall have! We went to Palm Island, FL it is near Sarasota and Bocca Grande Florida and I must say I had a great time even though I was keeping the kids lol. :)


On the first day we had a 6 AM flight out of Nash so I spent the night before with the "Grays", the people I babysit for who are super nice and that worked out because my parents were out of town and I was staying with my cousin who had a wedding. So that 3 AM from Virginia sure did come early but I had gone to bed super duper early at like 8:30 which for me is very early haha! So I had awaken at 2:45 ish and could not go back to sleep ugh :( but, I guess it was good to be able to wake up for 15 min before to have to get ready for the day lol! So I got ready, finished some last min. packing and realized that I had no contact solution, so VA to the rescue, she thankfully let me borrow some of hers :) After I got dressed I got Georgia up and dressed then we were on the road. We were not out of 42240 before we had to stop... C had to throw up... ugh traveling with children under 5 :) We made it to Nash and I slept the entire first plane ride and talked to Justin for about 5 min before knocking out :) In Charlotte we had breakfast, Bee and I were starving as we walked bye the cinnabun place in the airport! Once in Sarasota we got our cars and headed to my fav. Grocery, PUBLIX! Wow with 7.5 people there, we had a lot of junk we picked out to total almost $400.00 for 6 days! When we got to our house, we unloaded the kids, I stayed upstairs with GA, Maddie and a little bit of Charlie while the adults unloaded the bags (ahh how I love being the sitter lol.) :) Most of us hit the beach while I tried to put Georgia down for a nap with no luck so, Virginia tried and she and GA fell asleep :) We stayed out on the beach for about 2 hours and that felt like um 30 min and it might of even been 3 hours! Im telling you the girls were so right when telling me the time goes so SLOW around here! The adults went out to dinner and left me with the kids......
THAT WAS AN ADVENTURE (with lots of calls to mommy Virginia and daddy Robert) but, atleast Maddie and Georgia were good:)

Now for some info about Palm Island... From ME!
Palm Island is an all golf cart community... LOVE! We had two 4 person golf carts but, in Bocca Grande, I saw the perfect golf cart for us... AN 8 PERSON GOLF CART!
According to Jusin or Kristi it is golf cart because the bridge blew down and the people decided not to rebuild it because they thought it would keep it more secluded and D*MN they were right, we were their on the 4th and there was prob um around 200 to 300 people their. Now thats my kinda place, why? Well its close to things like shopping, eating, and boating! These things are only a short ferry ride away, and if you have kids, they will love the ferry! If you have teens, let them loose in the golf cart on the island come on thats what Justins dad did, yeah they have been coming here his whole life:) On the Island their is 1 store called the 'general store' that is attached to the one place to eat plus an ice cream shop! The general store has the cutest cover ups and hats from this brand called bag lady by mud pie.

The people on Palm Island are so NICE! They wave to everyone! I really didnt get a chance to explore the Island but GA and I went on a walk one day, and one of the thing I will remember forever hopefully, is that.. I jumped off a bridge! More about that later:)

Now to Day 2
Happy 4th Of July
Yes we were on the beach for the forth and I have some great pictures of the fireworks to prove it! But, let me go ahead and start off with the morning!
On the morning of day 2 we all woke up on our own, Kristi didnt feel so good the night before so she and Justin were the first to come home;) Since it was a holiday, the restaurant on the Island had a buffet breakfast, so we had to hit that up since they only had it on weekends:) We went to eat a wonderful breakfast and shop around a bit then let the kids play on the playground up at the resort. The Island has like a little resort where the restaurant is and they have "rentals" that are weekly I believe. :)
We came back but, GA fell asleep on the golf cart ride back so Robert stayed with her while we all went down to the beach. That afternoon the guys headed to the grocery to get fireworks, baby food (yes, we forgot babyfood on sunday lol) and steaks and stuff for dinner. I must say that dinner was great sadly we had no air so we were all dying from heat! But thankfully during the firework show, the airman showed up to fix it, he was our lifesaver that night lol. The firework show was awesome! I would love to show yall some of my pics but, our macs photo library isnt working along with us when we want it to. :(
I will try to get some of Virginias pictures to share with yall!


Maggie