The Blacktaels are on their first official vacation. We packed up the car Friday night, packed up the baby early Saturday morning, and took off for Indian Shores, Florida at the crack of dawn! We decided to get going after the baby’s early AM wake up, so that he’d go back to sleep for several hours in the car. Our plan worked brilliantly. Not only did Mr. Baby sleep for the first 4-ish hours of the trip, but we got out of Atlanta with very little traffic. Whew. Mr. Baby does NOT like a still vehicle. 

The drive was great, except for a few screaming fits from Jonah. Thankfully, Janet is limber and small, so she shimmied over her seat to soothe him. We rolled into Indian Shores just after 3, which was our target! Never before have we gotten to a road trip destination so early. 

We spent the evening getting settled into our rental. It’s right across the street from the beach! And it has a pool right by the bay! And the decor is right out of 1986! I love it! 

We had a lovely dinner at The Pub, a touristy place with pretty good food and excellent pina coladas.

Here are the only pics from the first day: (all of the baby, of course)

I’ve already had a long walk on the beach this morning: something I always say I want to do, but never get around to. It was delightful. It’s gonna be a scorcher. I better start hauling all of the sun protection gear across the street to the beach – I’ll wish I had a beach sherpa. 🙂

More soon.