oysters & boomer sooner & the beach.

for blakey's fall week of vacay, we met up with his brother & sister-in-law for a few days at the beach before the fan-freakin-tastic ou vs fsu state game.

one of my favorite parts of traveling lately is the road trip there.  since blakey works his butt off all of the time, it is nice to get to sit down with him & just chat.  we talk & talk & talk for hours about God knows what... blake's recent random obsessions {currently: building a house on multiple acres with a "man barn" & buying a super fast sports car.  ask me how likely these things are to happen in the next couple of years.}, trips we want to take, what our family & friends have been up to...

the drive to st george island is on smaller highways or even streets through alabama & florida.  {hey, alabama.  take a trip to texas & learn what an interstate is please.}  the last hour of the drive was through the apalachiciola national forest.  it was so pretty!  super tall & super skinny "naked" trees surrounded the little road.  & a bear ran across the road a few hundred feet in front of us!

st george island is gorgeous!  we lucked out again & had the sun & the sand & the water all to ourselves.  so most of our days were spent with the girls sitting in the sand getting a nice little tan, while the boys talked sports & medicine in the waves.  it was quite perfect.

on our last day, we took a stroll down the shoreline.  each couple picked out which beach house they wanted.  justin & peyton - the new england cottage.  blakey & me - the southern wrap-around porch with big columns.  love it.

& then the boys' hunting skills took over our walk.  a crab ran out of the water right in front of blake, so blake decided he had to have that crab.  it.was.hilarious.  blake would try to scoop up the crab with a slap coozie {oh yeah} & the little guy would fight back.  over & over & over again.  but b's persistency paid off & he caught that crab.

so on our trek back to camp with crab-in-cup, we found a big ole jelly fish that tumbled ashore.  blake had to have that too, so he conned justin into carrying it back for him.

{boomer sooner, crabby!}

{we decided we had likely pissed this little crab off,

& thus it would not be a good idea to let him run off into the ocean near us.

so blakey rannnnnnn down the shore

with the crab holding onto coozie for dear life
to drop him off a ways away from us.}

you totally want to vacation with us now, don't you?

once we had enough sun for the day, we all headed back to our gorgeous beach house to hang out on the porch.  {note: if you are vacationing at st george island, a screened-in porch is a MUST.  i cannot stress this enough.  long story short: peyton & i each had approx 100 mosquitos bites after our first outdoor dinner.  screened-in porch + camping strength bug spray = 100% necessary.}

the rest of our vacation revolved around food & ou football.  {this shocks you, i know.}

each afternoon through evening, we got pumped up for ou football.  we saw each of the intro videos at least once per day.  the very first "there's only one" video from 2005 has to be my favorite.  {take a look HERE.}  but 2007's "welcome to the house that bud built" is really good too.  {HERE}  &, of course, i love this year's "i swear my allegiance to the crimson & cream" {HERE}.

we played boomer sooner & the fight song & the chant over & over & over.

we watched one of my absolutely favorite football moments of all time - jump around during the ou vs tech game {HERE}.

& if you ever had an option about kevin wilson, please please watch this {HERE}.

it was amazing.  everything we want in a vacation.

thanks, justin & peyton for joining us for the most fabulous week!

stay tuned for the food blog post.  it will be lovely.

love love,
kjp.