Get out of our way…We’re going to Destin today!

We left our house at 4:00 pm, and we won’t be back until Monday the 22nd…that’s 10 DAYS!!!  We were ALL SO EXCITED!!!  The road trip is 12 hours total…our plan was to drive the first 6 hours and stay the night Jackson, Mississippi.  Then, get up Saturday morning and drive the rest of the way to Destin…

                 

Mommy drove Daddy’s van with Mallory, Kayden, Mrs. Erin, and lots of stuff packed in the back…

Daddy borrowed Granddad's truck to drive with Mr. Kevin, D, and even more stuff piled in the back…

The girls kept busy coloring…

                       

 Watching movies…

Eating snacks…

and sleeping…

Mrs. Erin was a great co-pilot…she kept Mommy company and even cleaned our windshield…

Mallory woke up and got a little restless…she kept saying, “I am ready to get to the hotel.”  And, we told her that we were almost there.  We arrived in Jackson about 11:00…we drove right to the Holiday Inn Express, and the parking lot was FULL!  Mr. Kevin jumped out to see if we could get a couple of rooms, but they were all booked.  We went to a couple of other ones, and we got the same answer…NO ROOMS.  We found out that there was a Softball tournament going on, and we may get get a room about 30 minutes away.  So, we went on to the next hotel…only ONE room available…not going to work with 7 people.  We tried another one a few minutes away…only smoking rooms available, and we didn’t want that.  It was after midnight now, and the girls were sleeping good.  We were only about 4 hours away, so Mommy told Daddy she could keep going if he could…so, we decided to just keep on going!!!  The girls woke up a couple of times…Mallory said again that she was ready to get to the hotel…this time Mommy told her that we could not get one and we were driving straight to the beach.  When we were about 30 minutes away, Mallory woke up and said, “I am ready to get to the BEACH HOME.”  Now the girls were up and excited to get there.  We pulled up to our house around 5am…

WE MADE IT!!! Our Beach Home, as Mallory called it…

Mommy and Mrs. Erin couldn’t believe we stayed up all night and drove the whole way…we were pumped because this gave us more time there than we had planned since we weren’t supposed get there until Saturday afternoon.  So, we unpacked, went to the grocery store, ate lunch…then, we were ready to GO TO THE BEACH!!!