Spring Break 2009: Seagrove Beach (Day 1 of 8)

Packed and ready to hit the road



Derek checks out his new skim board birthday present from Aunt Laine

Adam likes the bunk room

Saturday April 4, 2009

This year we went back to Seagrove Beach, FL for Spring Break. We've been going to the same development in Seagrove for 3 of the past 4 years (we went to Pensacola a couple years ago). We love the area. You can ride bikes up and down 30-A to neighboring towns like Seaside, the houses have a nice balance of elegance with a beachy feel - not too stuffy and no high rises\busy strips, the neighborhood has a heated pool, and the beach has a saltwater lake that connects to the Gulf where the kids love to play and skim board.

Here are the houses we've stayed at in Seagrove:

• 2009: Beach Java
• 2008: Amazing Place
• 2006: Five SeaSons

Here's a good website and interactive map of the area.

We followed the usual plan where I play my ALTA match in the morning before heading out of town. I hate to miss 2 weeks in a row. The baseball league takes off for Spring Break, thankfully, so the boys didn't have games. Helen did her best to get everything ready, but we were still a couple hours later than our 12 pm goal time for leaving town. The traffic south of Atlanta on I-85 was backed up, of course. How many more years before they finish that construction...and why is nobody ever working on it?

We arrived about 9 pm. Everyone else was already there: my brother, Jason, and his wife, Laine, along with my sisters, Kelley and Katie, and my Mom. Kelley flew to Pensacola from Anchorage and Katie picker her up on her drive over from Baton Rouge.

We unloaded the van, which is not too bad with everything packed nicely into plastic storage bins. When the boys went to check out their bunk room they found new skim boards that Aunt Laine and Uncle Jason got them for their birthday. They were so excited and came running downstairs holding the new boards. We didn't even have to tell them to give hugs and kisses.