Sisters Trip to Gulfport

When Destiny and I were planning our trip together, one of the main things we both love is going to the beach. So I looked into a few different places and gave her some options and we chose Gulfport, MS. It appeared on lots of lists of "Best Beaches in the US." 

Lunch at McAlister's Deli.

It's a treat for Dest to get to eat out without 

having to take care of kids while eating. :)

Then we got our toes done!

I forgot to get a picture, but Dest and I both wanted to lose some weight this year. We decided to be accountability buddies for each other. We each set a goal of how much weight we wanted to lose by the time we went on our trip. If we reached our goals, we would treat ourselves to pedicures on our trip. 

And we both made it!

Woo hoo!

We got checked into our hotel.

It was a super cute resort called Centennial Plaza. 

And it was walking distance to the beach.

The grounds were so pretty!

This is the beach right across from our resort.

It had gorgeous white sand.

And it was clean.

And a wide beach.

Sisters!

And one of them is always birding...

Isn't that sky AMAZING?

God is such an incredible artist!

Ok, what the "Best Beaches" lists failed to mention 

is that while the sand is really nice, the water is

SUPER SHALLOW. Like you can't actually swim here.

You could walk out a hundred feet into the gulf

and the water wasn't up to your knees.

Destiny mostly enjoys sunbathing, so that was fine

for her. But I mostly love swimming!

So not fine for me. :/

One of the surprise perks of our resort was

this fountain. At night it would do a light

show to music. It was like a mini Bellagio!

They even played my favorite song from Bellagio.

Our second day, we visited Ocean Adventures Marine Park. 

It was awesome and I loved it so much.

I'm more of the kid in my family than the kids. :)

They had a sea lion show.

A stingray touch tank.

A bird show!

And a place where you could feed the parakeets.

A little gator talk

And a dolphin show.

My favorite.

They also had smaller tanks.

This may be the uglies creature I've ever seen.

Axlotl

So fun spending time with my sis!

Our resort had a little water park and lazy river

where we also spent some time.

So fun to relax and soak up the sun.

And another walk on the beach.

Check out that sunset.

The next day we went out for tamales.

They were good, but the restaurant

was weird and didn't have any seating,

so we had to eat in the car. Ha!

Also stopped at this arcade,

which was mediocre.

We did a little bit of shopping.

We aren't the biggest shoppers.

And had a nice dinner on our last night at one 

of the resort restaurants.

This is how much stuff I packed.

My car was pretty full just with stuff for me!

Then it was time to drop Dest off at the airport and for me to

get back to NC. We decided we'd like to do a Sisters

Trip every other year. But we're also gonna try to have

a family reunion every other year. So we *might* have

to go two years in a row so we can stagger with the 

reunions after that. I'm sure our husbands won't mind. :)