Pensacola Beach Vacation Day #7 and #8

 Days #7 and 8 of our vacation were days that we wanted to explore and then do our favorite things! 

This is our condo!  We were the second floor from the top in the middle.  It was amazing!  Such a great view being so high up. 

It took me all week to remember but I finally got a photo by a palm tree and, as the boys said, "It wasn't even a pretty one." LOL  Oh well! 

On Friday we swam in the pool and then headed out to explore our island more.  We had driven to one end of the island by going to Fort Picken's and now headed the other direction and drive through some amazing National Seashore Land.  It was beautiful and I didn't take a single photo.  We didn't make it to the end of the island but made it quite a long way (into the next town over actually) before heading back.  We also took time to do some more souvenir shopping.  We had shopped our first day but waited to go back until the end.  We all kind of had things in mind we wanted to pick up.  Dinner was at a place called Crabs on the Beach.  The food on this night was just amazing!  It was so good, in fact, that we voted to go back on Saturday night. 

Saturday we knew we wanted to do our favorite things one last time.  We visited the pool first thing and swam for just a short bit.  Then, we headed to Fort Picken's as there was one area Nate and Darryl had not explored the last time we were there.  The views are just breathtaking. 

Yes, they got locked up several times HA!  

Of course we had to head to the ocean one last time.  The waves were much calmer but we still had some fun on the beach. 

Finally, we headed back to Crabs on the Beach for what we thought would be an amazing dinner.  (This is the Parrot outside the restaurant)  Well, twice was not the charm because our service was awful and the food was not great.  I actually sent my food back because it was ice cold (like out of the refrigerator cold) and ended up eating some of Josh's fries because our server put his order in wrong and we ended up with a double order.  Oh well, they can't all be winners! I didn't let it damper my wonderful experience in Pensacola Beach.  

Once back at our condo, we all just tried to enjoy the last bits of time before heading to bed.  I sat out on the balcony as long as I could just watching the moon and listening to the waves.