One thing that I loved about this vacation was sleeping in!! Since Rowen gets up around 7am, there is no sleeping in here at the Easley house. I slept till 10:00am-10:30am every morning and it felt so nice. I haven't felt that well rested in months. On Tuesday morning when we all got up, we hit the Dunkin Donuts.
It just makes a good morning a GREAT morning :)
After Dunkin we headed to a fish market to buy some fresh fish for dinner that evening. We checked out one and they didn't have a type of fish that Justin was looking for so we went down the street a ways to Walt's Fish Market. It was a restaurant and a market and it had a nice selection!
Brent and I got jumbo shrimp and red snapper. Heidi and Justin got amberjack and wahoo. I wanted to try something new and I had never had red snapper!
They had a huge case of fish, shrimp, crab, etc...
After Walt's, we headed to the grocery store to grab some groceries for the next few days. When we got back to the house, it was around 2pm so we ate lunch and hung out at the pool for a few hours. Brent's uncle has a private pool so we just had to walk out the back door. Before dinner, we headed over to St. Armands Circle. It's a really cool spot filled with restaurants and specialty shops.
See, it's really a circle!
One of the shops...Fanta Sea
Brent and I really liked the Florida Olive Oil shop and the Stadium Gallery. Florida Olive Oil had probably 50 different flavors of olive oil. We like cooking with olive oil so we had fun in that shop. Check it out here. And Stadium Gallery was just plain cool! It was filled with football and baseball and some basketball stadium prints. It made me wish Brent had a man cave so that we could have bought some of the prints. World Series, National Championships, Super Bowls, you name a game and the owner probably had a print of it. He even had games from decades ago. He is the one who actually takes the pictures so along with many of the prints, he includes the ticket to the game. You have to check out the shop here! Oh, Justin even found himself and his dad in one of the Alabama football prints! haha. After walking around, we found a new beach that we were going to go to the next day. Lido Key beach. It was huge and looked like there wouldn't be a crowd. It was a really pretty beach. There are so many different types of beaches in the state. This beach was probably the best beach I have ever been to in Florida.
That's all of us at the top with a channel behind us at St. Armands Circle. It was right beside Lido Key beach. And Brent, Justin and Heidi on the beach at the bottom.
We had some late dinners on this trip! But none of us minded. We got back to the house around 8:30ish and grilled our fish and made mac and cheese, green beans, and ranch potatoes for sides. It was delicious.
The red snapper was good and so was the shrimp. After dinner we watched a movie and ate dessert. Then we hit the hay b/c it was around 1:00am!! Part 3 to follow...
After Dunkin we headed to a fish market to buy some fresh fish for dinner that evening. We checked out one and they didn't have a type of fish that Justin was looking for so we went down the street a ways to Walt's Fish Market. It was a restaurant and a market and it had a nice selection!
Brent and I got jumbo shrimp and red snapper. Heidi and Justin got amberjack and wahoo. I wanted to try something new and I had never had red snapper!
They had a huge case of fish, shrimp, crab, etc...
After Walt's, we headed to the grocery store to grab some groceries for the next few days. When we got back to the house, it was around 2pm so we ate lunch and hung out at the pool for a few hours. Brent's uncle has a private pool so we just had to walk out the back door. Before dinner, we headed over to St. Armands Circle. It's a really cool spot filled with restaurants and specialty shops.
Brent and I really liked the Florida Olive Oil shop and the Stadium Gallery. Florida Olive Oil had probably 50 different flavors of olive oil. We like cooking with olive oil so we had fun in that shop. Check it out here. And Stadium Gallery was just plain cool! It was filled with football and baseball and some basketball stadium prints. It made me wish Brent had a man cave so that we could have bought some of the prints. World Series, National Championships, Super Bowls, you name a game and the owner probably had a print of it. He even had games from decades ago. He is the one who actually takes the pictures so along with many of the prints, he includes the ticket to the game. You have to check out the shop here! Oh, Justin even found himself and his dad in one of the Alabama football prints! haha. After walking around, we found a new beach that we were going to go to the next day. Lido Key beach. It was huge and looked like there wouldn't be a crowd. It was a really pretty beach. There are so many different types of beaches in the state. This beach was probably the best beach I have ever been to in Florida.
We had some late dinners on this trip! But none of us minded. We got back to the house around 8:30ish and grilled our fish and made mac and cheese, green beans, and ranch potatoes for sides. It was delicious.
Hi Brent & Rachel,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Jane and I'm with Dwellable.
I was looking for blog posts about Lido Key to share on our site and I came across your post...If you're open to it, shoot me an email at jane(at)dwellable(dot)com.
Hope to hear from you :)
Jane