This was a short work week for Ann & I. On Monday, Matt went to football practice during an extreme heat advisory. After work on Tuesday, we grabbed a quick bite to eat, packed up the car and headed on down the highway. Originally, we had planned to take the kids to Holiday World for a couple days, but at the last minute Dan & George had a cancellation on the condo in Panama City Beach and offered it up to us. Can you say upgrade?? The kids had no idea. Luke thought it was Holiday World; Abby thought it was a cave in Kentucky and Matt thought it was somewhere in Cincinnati. We thought it was a good idea to keep it a secret…however; the suspense kept the kids up the entire night! Grouchy kids up 24 straight hours and cramped in to a car for the final 12 does not make for well-behaved children. We made it in exactly 12 hours and hit the beach shortly after sunrise, about 7 am. We were on the beach because we couldn’t get in to our room due to manager not putting our room keys in the night drop box! Thankfully security came in within a half hour and let us in. We no longer got our stuff in to the room before I was headed to the gulf. Although the kids were the first to put their feet in the water, I was the first to get all the way in the gulf! We ran to the store to get food and supplies for our stay and headed straight to the beach afterwards. The water and weather was gorgeous! We couldn’t ask for the water temperature to be any nicer. It was by far the warmest I’ve ever experienced. We spent several hours at the beach and then another couple at the pool before coming up to take a well-deserved nap up in the condo. That night, we ate at Pineapple Willy’s. They have a great signature margarita (dubbed appropriately the Pineapple Willy) that is even better when served in their extra-large cups that you get to take home (you may see a couple of them pop up in the video below). The kids loved the alligator appetizer! After we finished supper, we came back to the condo and went for a walk out on the beach, enjoying the gorgeous evening as the tide came in…