We spent last week with some of our favorite people in what is now one of our favorite new beach towns!!!
I'm not sure how we went to south Florida where it was in the mid 80's all week and missed all of the 90 degree weather back home but I was thrilled!!
If you haven't been to Anna Maria Island, add it to your destination list NOW.
It is a laid back "old Florida town".
I woke up Delaney and we headed to the airport for our "early for us" flight (10:20 a.m.) and 2 hours later we were in Florida!! Is it just us who sits on a plane and talks about our next vacation before we've even arrived???? Delaney votes for Vegas or Hawaii (#thegirldreamsbig) while those of us who pay for vacation vote for Vail or the Outer Banks! Stay tuned on what "we" decide......but I may have already been checking out vacation rentals on Gore Creek!!!
But back to AMI.....
AMI is a 7 mile island less than an hour from Tampa. I think I saw one stop light, absolutely no drive-thru fast food restaurants and ZERO resorts! You rent a beach house, or you stay in a one or two story hotel/motel or cottage. You can drive down Gulf Shore Blvd. (I think) and look to your left and right and see water. Your ocean view as you drive isn't blocked by tall high rise resorts. They aren't allowed. The town pretty much shuts down at 10:00 p.m. Restaurants close at 8:00 or 9:00 and the liquor store even closed at 10:00 (#planahead #drinkearly). Everyone gets around on golf carts. Our group of 12 had 2 bicycles, 2 golf carts and 2 rental cars (although 1 of them was more like a bus). More on that later......
It's one of those destinations where people say they've never heard of it, or they say "I have heard great things about AMI"....
Our week went like this:
1. Beach
2. Dinner
3. Pool
4. REPEAT
(and 3 nights we threw in Big Brother :-)
Once we got settled in ("settle" doesn't seem like the right word for our amazing beach house though). It fit our group perfectly with 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. The adults all had our own bedrooms/bathrooms and the kids had their own space/bathrooms.
(This is about half of our stuff, apparently we thought we were staying a month)
Our beach house was amazing!!!
After we threw down all of those suitcases, we decided to hop on the golf carts (Florida style---suits and cover ups) and go grab dinner.
We ordered Delaney a small cheese pizza.....and this came out!
I told the waitress it was suppose to be a small and she said "this is the small"
Please note, Delaney ate HALF of the pizza #whocaresitsvacation
Then it was back to the house to let the kids swim. One of the adults said going down the slide was her favorite memory from the trip. The slide did NOT disappoint!!!
We couldn't believe there weren't any pool toys for the kids to play with :-)
Stay tuned for more of our amazing vacation tomorrow!!
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