A day trip to P-cola Part 1!

For some reason I had the random idea on THURSDAY that it might be fun to take  a day trip to Pensacola on Saturday. I'm usually not a last minute girl or one that says "we just won't have a plan." In fact, I don't think I've EVER uttered those words, but this weekend, that's exactly what we did.

Jared and I decided to head over to a nearby town, Pensacola (which is about 2 hours away) with no real agenda. The only thing I REALLY wanted to do was go see the lighthouse. Well, we set out around 9 a.m. and made it to Pensacola around 3. In between 10 and 3 we stopped at Panera, then the outlet malls in Sandestin (and quickly left as it was ridiculously crazy...I forgot it was tax free weekend here), then some cute antique malls, Tijuana Flats (a GREAT mexican restaurant that we don't have in Panama City), a few bathroom breaks, refueling break, and THEN we made it) after getting a little turned around.

We didn't have a garmin with us or any real set of directions so once we knew we were in Pensacola we just googled how to get everywhere...man was that fun (NOT)! Anyways, we finally made it to the lighthouse and it wasn't really what I expected at first.

But, I quickly got my "let's walk all the way up to the top" experience. It was round and round we went...up 175 NARROW steps, trying to dodge other people while trying not to fall off the steps or die of heat exhaustion.

But once we made it to the top it was well worth it, and I think I actually learned something new about Jared...he's scared of heights...uh oh...did you say heights?! Just look at his face in this picture.

I actually couldn't stop laughing as he was impatiently waiting for me to take my pictures so we could go back down. It was a short trip but well worth it! After the lighthouse we went across the street to the Naval Aviation Museum. I'm not usually big on museums but this one was pretty cool (in both terms of the word)

(in both terms of the word)...did I mention it was stinkin' hotttt yesterday?! We also took our time coming back, stopped back in Destin at the Hard Rock (cause I had never been to one)...it was awesome, the waiters/waitresses got up on tables and started dancing to YMCA (which pretty much summed up the fun we had yesterday), and THEN as if we hadn't eaten enough, we found some room for TCBY. Man, I feel like such a fatty typing about all the eating we did, but I had never been to 1 of them, the other is delicious yet Panama City doesn't have one and TCBY is Jared and I's favorite...we even passed up two other cooler looking froyo places because we just LOVE TCBY! Hope you had a great weekend as well!