Academily: Destin 2013 - Emily Party of Six: Part III

Kody and I have a great group of friends that love any chance to visit the beach. We especially love Destin! We have typically planned our beach trips on Spring Break (in March), but because all of us are now graduated, it was easier to plan a trip in June. So we headed off to soak up the sun in one of our most favorite places!

Our first stop is always in Kody's hometown of McGehee. This gives us a 5-hour "head start" on our road trip, and we truly appreciate his mom letting us stay with her! We usually head out early in the morning, stop at the McDonald's in Lake Village for breakfast, a terrible chicken restaurant in Mobile, AL for lunch, make a few more random pit stops, and end the day with our toes in the sand in Destin!

Our road trips are always entertaining, and this year was no different. It was even complete with a burning Taco Bell. Luckily, it wasn't the one we always stop at on the way back home! (You might say we like tradition, or routine, I'm not sure which. haha)

It was pretty cloudy when we finally arrived at our condo!

With the clouds settled in, we decided it would be a good time to go ahead and get our groceries for the week. After a few disastrous attempts to eat out the first year we visited together, we decided we would start cooking our own food. We typically have a spaghetti night, a pizza or lasagna night, a taco night, a cheeseburger night, and only one night out for local seafood. This has worked much better for us, but we have to thank those first few trips out for our groups' name, "Emily, Party of Six". (Note, there are only 5 of us that are originals.)

Kody and Kent on our way to WalMart.

Because we went the last week of June and left the day before Fourth of July, Kent helped us be extremely patriotic each day on the beach. It was also a great way for us to find our chairs when we went swimming or walking down the beach!