Our Week in Destin | July 2019

The last week of July, we had some friends and family down towards Destin and my hubby and I decided to make a trip down to our condo there and have one last hoo-rah with the kiddos before school started.

We drove down Saturday afternoon after a couple of birthday parties that morning and got there in time for dinner.  I went straight out to my favorite spot, the condo balcony.  The sunsets on this balcony always bring me to my happy place.  This condo was passed down to my brothers and I after my Dad passed.  He bought it back in 2004 or 2005 I think.  So it has been a favorite spot for us ever since.

Saturday night, we were actually able to go out to dinner with our friends.  They have a daughter in high school that was so sweet to come over and watch the kids for us while we went to dinner.  We went to an Italian restaurant called Mimmo’s.  We had been hearing great things about this restaurant, but it is in a strip mall and we never seemed to make it there.  But don’t judge a book by its cover, because this place was great!  The inside was really nice inside and we all had a great meal.

Sunday morning, we woke up and headed to Big Kahunas Water park.  I grew up going to this place, but haven’t been since I was a teenager.  Matt and I took all three kids and they had a blast.  We brought Molly (almost one) in a stroller and I would say that was quite a pain.  There are lots of stairs that you have to go up and down through out the park.  Once we got settled, it was kind of nice to have the stroller because she did take a little nap in it for awhile, but it was work.  The park had two great areas for young kids.  We hung out in those areas and then Matt and I just took turns taking the kids on some of the slides.  They were still too short for a lot of them, but they had fun on the ones they could ride.

Monday morning Matt had to head back to work.  I hung out with the kids that day around the condo.  We had a slow morning, swam at the pool and just chilled.  We were a little sad because we were supposed to go meet up with our friends that were on 30A for the week, but Brody started with a cough, so we didn’t want to get anyone else sick.

Monday night, Matt came back down to the condo after work.  It is only about an hour commute for him from the condo to his office.  We were able to have dinner Monday night with my Aunt and Uncle at another Italian restaurant we had never been before.  It is called Pazzo’s and it is also in a strip mall and quite unassuming.  Guess what? The food was great and the decor inside was quite nice.

On Tuesday, our nanny came down and she helped me out with all these rascals while Matt had to go out of town for work.  We woke up and had Krispy Kreme and then got our suits on and headed behind The Back Porch restaurant to hang at the beach.

The water was so clear and gorgeous.  I hadn’t seen it this beautiful all summer long.  We had the best day!  While Molly was napping on the beach, I walked the big kids down to check out the blow up trampoline and banana boats that they had in the water.

We did this Banana Boat and the kids thought it was the coolest day ever!

All of our swimsuits are from Minnow Swim

Tuesday night I was able to go meet my girlfriends from Atlanta down at Cafe 30A.  They were in town with their kids (who we were supposed to go meet the day before at the beach) and I was so excited to get to catch up with them.

My Dress (on sale, few sizes left)

While we were waiting on our table at Cafe30A, I ran into Kate at Lonestar Southern with her family.  I totally fangirled and introduced myself.  She couldn’t have been sweeter and her whole family was just adorable.

On Wednesday, we met friends at the Gulfarium in Pensacola.  I am embarrassed to say that I didn’t even remember the last time I had been there. It had been ages.  The place was so cool and they really had some great shows.  It was pretty crowded and VERY hot, so the kids didn’t last super long; but I am so glad that we went.  I would definitely recommend checking that out if you are in the Destin/Ft. Walton area sometime with kids.

Wednesday evening we ordered in at the condo and started getting ourselves packed up.  We headed home on Thursday and I was sad to leave.  The weather was so beautiful for us that trip.   If we didn’t have plans that next weekend, I was ready to stay for the rest of the week and have meet us back down there for the weekend!!

I get asked pretty often about places to eat and things to do in Destin.  I plan to get a Travel Guide up for the area soon.  There is so many great things to do and see down there.  In the meantime, you can always search “Destin” in my blog search bar and find all of our posts.

:: Where We Stayed ::
Marbella Condominiums

:: What We Did ::
Big Kahunas
Beach
Ft. Walton Gulfarium

:: Where We Ate ::
Mimmo’s Italian
Pazzo Italian
Cafe 30A