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Sadly, I thought on the TITLE for this blog for days before I heard that old song on the radio.  I can sense that it will be a challenge at times to name every blog with song lyrics…at least ones that I like and have meaning for me.  I think I can handle a challenge….

So, we went to the beach.  My mom owns a timeshare and we were able to use a week, so we headed to Panama City Beach (pretty much the only thing left available for the entire year by the time we scheduled it!) for the first week of November.  This is a pretty awesome thing, because we have never taken a family vacation before.  The last time Brian and I spent a week on vacation, I was just barely pregnant with Noah.  We spent a phenomenal week touring the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  But I digress….

Panama City.  A week away from the world.  No internet at first (we couldn’t find it, so we lived without it for a couple of days), no cell phone service (we had to go out on the balcony to get one bar), no schedules.  We just did whatever we wanted, when we wanted to….beach, pool, hot tub, nap, watch tv, you name it.  I read 4 and a half books and worked about half of a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle.  Very nice.  I also sunburned twice.  Not so nice.  I took my brand new camera and took a few hundred pictures.  I enjoyed watching the boys play on the beach for the first time.  They loved to play in the sand.  We also had so much fun watching little shelled creatures wash up in the tide and immediately dig themselves into the sand.  We took a moonlight walk along the beach one night.  We played mini-golf and went through a huge maze.  We walked out into the ocean…though none of us tried to swim in it.  I think it was a little too cold and a little too intimidating.  I bought a snorkel set but hyperventilated just trying to put my face in the ocean and look at what was under there.  Noah really enjoyed it in the pool though!    I could have sat on our balcony and listened to the ocean 24 hours a day.  Brian and I both joked about sleeping out there.  It was just a little too chilly.  But that meant that during the day it was nice enough that we could leave the air off and keep the balcony doors open wide.  Gorgeous.

I am glad we took a vacation.  It did us all good.  I was also glad to come home.