Beach Trip!

This post is gonna be about 7000 miles long, thats why ive been putting it off because i know it cant be short! so this past weekend, i went to the beach with some of the best people in the world!

it was amazing, to say the least :) after i got off work thursday night(it wasnt until like 12am) i went to hilarys to stay there for the night. well, we didnt go to sleep until like 3:00. and we had to be up at 4:30! so we slept for about an hour and a half, obviously, and we got up and headed to April&Blake's house. it was wierd driving that early in the morning! it didnt start getting really good&light till when we were around scottsboro. anyways, we got to blake&aprils safely, then loaded up with them and went to cracker barrel! (my second breakfast of the morning, because me and hil stopped by hardees earlier) it was DELICIOUS. then we met up with br.larry&family to drive along with them to the sunny florida! i dont have too much to say about the trip down there, because i slept like the whole time almost. Logan(who was riding with br larry) said that he didnt even know that i was with them until like 4 or 5 hours into the trip, because every time we stopped i just stayed in the car asleep. but it seemed that every time i woke up, it was to april's beautiful singing voice!

once we got to florida, we went to red lobster. and let me tell you,,,, red lobster was freakin amazing. theyre cheese biscuits make me want to marry somebody! ah. but anyways... florida felt so good! it was so warm and sunny there! and what made it even better is that i knew that it was kinda cold here in alabama.. so it made my heart happy :) after red lobster, we went back to the house.. where we discovered that there was a pool!! woo hoo! but we didnt stay there long before our strangers came to pick us up. yes, me hilly and april stayed with strangers that night. well atleast to us, they were complete strangers. mama kim knew the woman though(sister crystal) the two girls that we stayed with was Leah and Kayla. they were SUCH sweet girls! i cant wait to go see them again sometime!

<Leah

and they had the sweetest little chiwawa(i know thats not how you spell it. i just dont know how you spell it. lol) its name was Peaches! it was precious:) that night, i slept like a baby! i slept like a baby every night i was there though.. like i havent had such good sleep in so long!

The next day, Saturday, we got up at aroun 8 their time to get ready to go to the beach! Leah and Kayla didnt get to come with us though, cause they had stuff to do to get ready for the singing that night. We met back up at the house that mama kim, daddy hughey and the boys were staying at and then headed to mickeyDs for breakfast! then, off to the beach. we went to melbourne beach that day, which was still like two hours from where we were staying. we had to make several stops so logan and blake and avery could get some clothes to swim in. it took FOREVER to get to the beach. and we ended up only getting to spend about 2 hours at the beach that day. but it was absolutely beauitful!

we were forved to leave before too long because we had to get back to the house(where Shaun, Donovan, and Curtis were waiting on us, cause they had just gotten to florida) to get ready in time for the singing which was at 6. the ride back to the house didnt seem NEAR as long as the ride to the beach!

we got back to the house and only had about an hour & a half to get ready. thankfully, curt shaun and donovan had already gotten ready by the time we got there. but still.. we only had an hour and half for 8 people to get ready. showers and all! we managed to actually make it on time to the singing though! im pretty sure that no group of people has never gotten ready as fast as we did that day!

When we got the the singing, there really wasnt many people there obviously, considering that there isnt many people that go to church there. it was just two groups.. blakes group and then the home group from there. i was thinking that it was gonna be lame.. pessimistic me.. but i actually really really enjoyed it. both of the groups did awesome! we ate bbq sandwiches there.. and i know that anybody that is reading this is probably like 'why is she telling me what she ate?' im telling you because i have NEVER been so happy and thankful to have bbq sanwiches in my LIFE! we had skipped lunch so we were all starving! and yes, i said sandwicheS! i ate TWO!!!

After the singing, we went back to the house for just a bit and hung out with the boys while they went swimming. leah, kayla, and a few other girls from that church whose names escape me at the moment.. came over also. on friday night when we were out there we kept hearing this noise back behind that house and we were like AH! ALLIGATORS! but then we convinced ourselves that that was probably too good to be true, and settled to believe that the noises were just humongous frogs. but sister crystal told us saturday night when they were over that there was a big swap just right behind that house and that noise was indeed alligators! real, live, wild alligators! how cool is that!?!?! (here comes one of the best parts of the whole vacation) if i have failed to mention this yet, Grandmother(blake&april's) came with us on the trip. Grandmother is an 87 year old little ole woman just cute as can be. well whenever she heard that those were really alligators.. she disappeared for a moment. when she returned.. she had a flashlight. and she started creeping to the door of the net that surrounds the pool(so alligators and such cant get in) and as shes walking she says under her breath 'im gonna go get me a gator.' and off she goes to go find her a gator at 12am! by her little ole self! she was back within a minute though, but she wasnt giving up. the rest of the vacation you could always find her at a window peeking out it to see if she could 'find her a gator'. she also attempted atleast another time or two with her little flashlight to go try to find her one. she now goes by either the name of Crocodile Hunter or Crocodile Dundee. oh how i love her!

Sunday morning, we went to church! and on our way to church, i looked up in the sky and there was an airplane drawing 'Jesus loves you ' in the sky! i couldnt believe my eyes! that kind of stuff only happens in movies!

church was good i guess.. its really hard to tell though from where i sit lol. but Br Larry was sure to talk talk talk just like he always does:) hes such a sweetheart lol. but we ate there after church.. then decided to skip out on church that night to try to get back to the beach for atleast a few more hours! this time, Donovan, curt and shaun got to come with us.we went to cocoa beach this time, and it felt like it took us 7 hours to get there! we didnt get there till probably either 6 or 7 so we only got to stay about an hour and a half before it got dark, it was fun though!

there was also a full moon over the ocean that night, and it was absolutely beautiful, but i didnt get to get a pic of it because my camera was acting dumb.

it took forever to get home, we didnt get there till about 10. we stopped and got some pizza from pizza hut, and again i was SO thankful for that pizza cause i was starving! Leah and Kayla ended up coming back over and all the girls went swimming except for me. i stayed out and hung with Blake because the boys were talking about how cold the pool was the night before, and im not much for cold pools.. especially when im that tired! we played spoons after the girls got out of the pool.. and just hung out and it was a great night.!

Monday morning, time to come home :(

we went to cracker barrel again monday morning, delicious once again, and then headed back home. i slept a little on the way home, but not near as much as i did on the way. before we got out of florida, we stopped at a souvenier shop. i got myself a little bracelet. me april and hilly were looking at these really cute necklaces but for some reason we didnt get them . once we got back in the car, blake hands back three of those necklaces to us! hes such a sweetie that he bought all three of us one!!

on the way home, we mainly just sang to the New Harmony cd or talked about super serious stuff. at one point, it got a little too serious, which sent me into depression mode, but its all good because who better to bring me out of depression mode than April, Hil, Blake, Crocodile Dundee, Mama Kim, and Daddy Hughey!?! we stopped at some terryaki place on the way home to eat, where i accidentally ordered a large plate. let me tell you, theres a LOT of rice on the large plate! anyways, after that, we finally made it safely back home. i ended up just staying at hils house that night again cause i had to be at work the next morning, and work is a lot closer to her house than mine.

all in all, i really really really really really didnt want to leave florida! it was so perfect. It was warm, sunny, beautiful palm trees, planes writing about how Jesus loves me in the sky, great friends, beaches, and so close to the magic of Disney :)