Alys Beach 2017: Getting There

We haven’t taken a family vacation since the NYC experience/ disaster in April and I had had enough of all my friends’ beach pics on social media, so we decided to try traveling with Cressey again and take our annual trip to Alys Beach for fall break. We flew since she doesn’t tolerate cars well.

She did decently other than the 10 minutes on each flight where she was required to sit in her seat and be still. We did buy her her own seat this time, and the space was really nice to have. Her ears don’t seem to bother her, and she pushed through naptime as best as we could have expected. We didn’t get any nasty comments this time, and we were blessed with some really nice seatmates. (She fell asleep the minute she got into her car seat on both trips.)

We really hit the easy button this trip. I had groceries delivered within an hour of when we got there, I had baby gear delivered to the house and it was already set up when we arrived, and we had a babysitter set up for three different times throughout our trip. There was only one small problem- Hurricane Irma. It threatened to uproot our whole trip, but we decided to just push through and were glad we did. It was just a lot of rain and wind overnight and a dreary day on Sunday. Not bad!

Helen Grace and I are beach people. We need to recharge and refuel with sand, the breeze, and the ocean. It seems Cressey did NOT receive the same genes…or maybe she just needs more time. She REFUSED to put her feet on the sand. Big disaster. There’s always next time.

Here’s the start of our adventure…

In the sky club…after John raced home to recover HG’s backpack sitting by the back door.

What a great big sister. She is SUCH a big help.

Peep pie with daddy a row ahead of us

This was adorable in the one minute while it lasted. My hopes were dashed.

This was a majority of our flights as I tried to tell her to sit in her seat.

ATL layover

Look at this little soldier! She’s a professional traveler.

Asleep as soon as she hit the car seat

Ahhhhhh, the real crib was a hit. She wanted to try it out immediately.

HG had to hit the beach asap.

Found a new friend!

Cressey’s first beach experience in 2017

NOT A FAN