My second favorite place on earth

My family has been making an annual pilgrimage to the Florida Gulf Coast for the past 11 years. Now that I'm grown and married they still let me come along :) They also let me bring a couple of important people too :) They are so nice to let us tag along. Here are some highlights from the week-

(It can be a pain to rearrange pictures on blogger so these are very out of order)

I'll start off with the two half decent pictures I was able to get of Sydney (at least you can see her face, right?)

Every other time (well, just about) I tried to get a picture of her she did this-



Or this-

Or she would just walk away altogether.

Ok, so I got more than 2 but seriously, for every picture I have of Sydney's face, there are about 15 of the side or back of her head.

My buddy :)

I'll save you the trouble of looking through the 45 attempts it took to get this picture and just show you this one :)

The original members of Team Simon

The awesome house we all stayed in. Thanks Mom and Dad!! Just a short walk to the beach. It was heaven!
Another attempt at a family picture...

This was Sydney's spot for the week. She loved this swing.

What a ham!
Catching ghost crabs

Sunrise
Our first day there. We couldn't wait to show Sydney the ocean! The water was pretty gross the first day but the next day it was gorgeous and clear!

Ahhh, blue water :) Sydney watching dad.

Sydney loved the sand and playing with all the toys.

My studly bro.

I mean, that's just ridiculous. I could spend all day swimming in that.

It was such a late part of the summer that there weren't very many people there. We practically had the beach to ourselves!



Eating breakfast with Grandpa (more like mooching off of Grandpa's breakfast). I love her hair in the morning. This is pretty tame.
My favorite people in the whole world.


On our way down. We couldn't wait to get there! (like I said, these are very out of order!)

Cruisin down to the beach! She was AWESOME on the 6 hour car ride down. Coming back was another story. She was not happy to be stuck in the car for 6 hours after spending a week at the beach!

The End :)