Vacation Day 1

*Warning...there WILL be tons of pictures with some video as well*

Me and Maddy just got back from our first vacation of the year. We headed down to Panama City Beach, FL with my mom and step dad to stay in the condo they rent. Let me just tell ya that the condo is just plum amazing! Me and my mom stayed up late Friday night packing. I have no idea what time my mom went to bed, but I decided I better get some sleep around 12:30 a.m. as we were supposed to be up at 4. My step dad rented me a car for the trip because my car isn't very reliable for long trips anymore. I got a 2012 Camry and I am quite impressed with it. I only have one pic of it and it was dark but you get the idea anyways.

This car has some get up and go to it and some neat little gadgets inside. I took a pic of the radio system, which btw, has some major bass to it lol

Google maps gave three routes to take to get there

We bypass Atlanta and go towards Columbus and pass through Eufala and Dothan and well, you get the idea. My favorite part of the drive, besides seeing the Florida welcome sign, is in Eufala. There is this historical looking type town that is just so pretty to drive through. I call it Mayberry because it reminds of Mayberry lol. Here are a couple of pics I got while driving through. The speed limit was like maybe 25 and we were going 15 due to traffic so I was very safe :)

By the time we hit the Florida Welcome Center, Maddy had fallen asleep. I want to try to add her into the photo eventually, but for now I will just show the two different pictures.

Once we hit the welcome center it was only about an hour and ten minutes until we were at the beach. Maddy did super well on the trip. She does much better on long car trips compared to around town. I apparently didn't fully charge the dvd player, so maybe three hours or so into the trip it went dead and she doesn't understand she has to keep the dvd player still when it is plugged up. She got upset when she had nothing to do, but we pulled over and got her some toys to play with and from there she was just fine.

The name of the condo's we stay in is Treasure Island. It is just beautiful too! I'm going to post a video tour I did and will warn you I went a little fast and it's definitely sloppy, but again you will get the gist of it lol

Maddy calls the sand, "the sandbox" and the ocean the water. If she wanted to swim in the pool she would say she wanted to go to other water. She had no fear of the sand this year and just dug right in. She did have fears of the ocean, but I expected that. The last day we were in the ocean she let my mom and step dad carry her out and she actually laughed. I was so proud of her for overcoming her fears :)

We decided to bring dinner back to the condo to eat since we got there kinda late in the afternoon. We ate Scampy's and it was yummy!! Me and Maddy both got popcorn shrimp and fries. We were able to watch the sunset and it was just gorgeous! I had a picture of it on my camera and posted it to my facebook, but somewhere along the way it got erased along with a bunch of other pictures I had on this memory card.

This was the first day of our trip to Panama City Beach, I will add the other days either tonight or tomorrow :)