Mini Vacation!

You know when people make you do visualization exercises to get you imagination flowing or calm you down, and they tell you to go to your happy place? Well the picture above is more or less a version of what I picture every time. The beach is my favorite place on earth. I love the waves, the smell, the sun, the food ... pretty much the whole idea of the beach.

Yesterday I was out of classes for Mardi Gras (How awesome is that?!) and thank goodness lovely Laura was out, too. So what did we do? We went to the beach!!! It was great. I'm pretty sure Laura appreciates the ocean as much as I do, so she made the perfect day trip companion. We left Clinton at 7 and were on the shore taking in this view by 9:45.

Because it was a bit chilly we took to the beach in several bits of time, and did other things throughout the day.

It was pretty much beach, shopping, explore, eat, beach, explore, shopping. Fun stuff!

 We stopped for lunch at this great place named "White Cap Seafood" or something like that. I didn't notice until now that everything on the plate besides the sauce was fried, but it sure was good! I mean, hey, I WAS on vacation wasn't I? We will definitely be returning (hopefully with more friends!) to this place.

Here are a few other things we saw:

There were sand sculptors at one of the places we went shopping! There were figures all the way around the thing, and it was pretty cool!
Also, I think we found the next Toddlers & Tiaras featured pageant... I'm pretty sure this is the first time I have seen one of these kind of posters in my life. It's quite funny.

It was so fun to be able to hop in the car and go down to the coast for the day. I hope that I can do it again soon! It was so nice to sit just chillin' and talking.