A State-cation
Our weekend vacation was quite wonderful. I guess it was a sort of stay-cation because we never left our own state. If you looked at Florida on a map it might not seem as big as it really is. For instance, we live in Orlando and drove to the panhandle which takes 6.5-7 hours. However this trip back to the land of where our parents live was a little different. Thanks to some incredible bloggy love, we were able to use a beach house in my favorite beach town of Seaside. If you didn’t click the link in my previous post, click this one and enjoy. Go ahead….I’ll wait.
I think the last time we were in Seaside was for an afternoon trip on our honeymoon 11 years ago. It’s a little out of the way from where our parents live, but is the perfect little town for a perfect little escape. Although it was, by Florida standards, cold and windy(60 degrees F) all weekend it was pure serenity. We ate the freshest seafood you can eat and enjoyed some of the best the local fare has to offer. Fried pickles to die for, wine at the classic book store, and freshly baked muffins at the famous town market. If you saw the movie The Truman Show, it took place here. The market is where Jim Carey’s character worked and yes, the town really looks just as it did in the movie. We were lucky enough to be there during a farmers market day which was also Family Fun Day. The coolest vendor was the license plate art booth and I wish we could have bought more. They did have a make your own where the kids made a little sign using letters from license plates which was cool, but I really LOVED the map of the US pictured below. I just don’t have $1850 to buy it. I got to enjoy perhaps the best fish dinner I’ve ever eaten and I look forward to making the out of way trip during the Christmas holiday to return to the location. Hands down the coolest beach-side place I’ve ever been in. I’d link to it but the have no website currently.
On the way home we got to meet another blogger, Ms. Moon. I was not a regular reader of her blog before now, but knew of her through some comments I’d seen on other blogs I do read. Needless to say she’s in my reader now! She lives in a tiny little town of Lloyd which I’d never heard of before our visit. Just outside Tallahassee is where you’ll find it and it is an old place rich in history. I hope to visit again and for longer next time to explore the property and hear stories about the old house. It was just the coolest place full of nature and magnificent trees older than this country. My girls enjoyed feeding her pet chickens and the neighbors goats, even if they were shy about doing so! Those yummy cookies probably had something to do with that. 
I look forward to a return visit as she was one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
The worst part about having such an enjoyable weekend? The Monday after. Nothing better than returning to work the next day and having 3 hours of meeting scheduled for your afternoon. That’s right, 3 hours. Probably ran longer too, but I had somewhere to be, so I left right at 5 while the thing was still going. Whew! Returning to the real world after submersing yourself in the world we went to though will never be easy.
Here are my phone pics, enjoy…
Downtown Seaside Farmer's Market
USA map of license plates
What a pretty day
Swings are fun!
Sisterly love at the beach
Perfect compliment to any meal and blog posts. Cheers!
October 19th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
That US map… KILLER!
Glad you had such a nice time, Patrick.
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Yeah. That’s where we’re retiring to. At least during the winter-ish time.
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Wow … I just might have to put that place on my “visit someday” list. Sounds wonderful!
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October 20th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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October 20th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Sounds wonderful.
I LOVE the license plate United States – so cool!!
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October 20th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Makes me want to take a road trip!
Looking forward to the hubby and me meeting you at the Halloween party!
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October 20th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I am jealous. I clicked on the link in your last post and fell absolutely in love-LOVE-with Seaside, and those wonderful places to stay, and even went so far as to think, “aha, perhaps this is the spot in which steve and I can vacation…” but then it got to the prices and-well. Nuff said. I am ALSO insanely jealous that you got to meet Ms. Moon; like, the kind of jealousy and longing that makes my heart hurt. So-if someone else I know got to go to the beach AND meet Ms. Moon, I am glad it was you and yours; that is so freaking cool.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 am
Please excuse the interruption.
This is a Public Service Announcement from Certifiable Princess:
Hello. My name is CP. I see you are attending Avitable’s Halloween Party
this weekend. I stopped by to introduce myself. Nice to meet you!
Thank you and goodnight.
You may now resume your regularly scheduled comments.
(The little ones are ADORABLE!)
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October 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 am
Your daughters are so damn beautiful I just sort of wanted to eat them up. Like the wicked witch. But it was just as fun to feed them cookies and watch them feed the animals.
Y’all are good people. You have my seal of approval and may stop by any time.
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