PERDIDO KEY

Dear Sisters,

I think the best part about living down here are the beaches.  My goal for the summer was to visit different beaches that are within an hour drive from me. I've been to all of them on the map below except for Fort Pickens, as the roads to that beach were never repaired from Ivan back in 2005.  If you actually click on the map, you can see where we live (Myrtle Grove) and how far the beaches are from us. I think a lot of people think we live minutes away from the beach, but actually it is the same distance as driving to Nantasket Beach back home. 

The kids and I usually go to Casino Beach but for the past couple of weekends we've been going to Johnson's Beach in Perdido Key.  

I'm not quite sure if Perdido Key is actually part of Pensacola, but it is so beautiful over there or shall I say,  "the grass is greener on the other side" if you know what I mean ;0) It actually feels like I'm on vacation when I'm over there because they have all these different pastel color houses and picture perfect palm trees (which I don't have pics of) when you first enter this little town.  I wish there were picture perfect palm trees all over Pensacola.  Before coming down here, I used to think that the whole state of Florida was all tropical with palm trees all over the place and I'm assuming a lot of northerners think the same, BUT here in good ol' P'cola I've only seen them in:

1. Fancy neighborhoods

2. In front of hospitals and 

3. In front of banks

Anyways, here are a bunch of pics of the kiddos in the "public" part of Johnson's beach.....

Most of buildings on this beach are condos....... I think I will retire here :0)

I think for the next beach season, I will buy 3 bathing suits for each child because I just realized that most of my beach pics I have taken look like they were all from the same day.

I love this "Bay Watch" running pic.

Here's my lil pumpkin enjoying my bag of Munchos......

Mmmmmmmm, soooooooo goooooooood!!!

I think there are only 4 to 5 more weeks of beach weather in this part of Florida :0(  I am going to try to make the most of it and try to go 3 more times.  I am REALLY going to miss my exotic tanned skin and I'm not looking forward to turning back to my original pasty beige color :0(

Miss you guys sooooooooooo much,

Joy

P.S- You can actually click on all the pics to take a better look if they are too small.