Arrival!

If you haven't read the Pre-Vacation blog below, then you can get the whole picture of how excited we've been for this day to come. We just got back from eating, grocery shopping, and having a barista @ Starbucks grind some coffee for me; but i'll get back to that in a minute. Let's start with the trip; It was a BREEZE. Leaving the night before & staying in a hotel along the way (in Jackson) was probably the best decision I made this whole week of vacation. There still could be many more good decisions awaiting for this week, but i'm pretty set on that one being the "best". We drove into Super 8 Hotel in Jackson, MS about 1am (originally planning 2am, but my foot was a lil' heavy...but not TOO heavy on getting there). We both slept the whole night through, which lately hasen't been happening(that's another blog), woke up refreshed & energized to get on the road for 6 more hrs. It couldn't have flown by more quickly; before we knew it we were checked in to our suite ;)...and on the beach picking up sand dollars & shells for collection.
What I haven't mentioned yet;
When we arrived to the Gulfview condo's our key they gave us wasn't opening the door; so a maintenance guy happened to be strolling around, probably on his smoke break, and realized we were having trouble w/ opening the door. We told him what the problem was & he went back to his shop & brought back a key that worked & opened the door. That was interesting. When we walked into the condo it was blistering hot, so we just thought they had the AC off. I went to turn it on & it was already on - long story short... we still don't have AC & it seems to not be working. I called it in about 5:30, they said they'd bring someone out, but now it's 9:30 and nothing. Oh well, we'll sleep in the 85 degree temp w/ the fans on high & will still enjoy our time here. We're not gonna let that ruin it. Hopefully tomorrow it'll be fixed, so on the next blog i'll have either good or bad news. SO... we decided to go eat & enjoy our evening.
First stop was Jim-n-Nicks and oh man... good job Jeremy! I had the half-rack spare ribs & Jaci had a brisket sandwich. I was completely surprised of how nice of a BBQ place it was. The only BBQ places I've ever set foot in were small town, about 100 sq.ft, you can barely stand up all the way before you hit your head on the ceiling! This place was the Saltgrass of BBQ places! Awesome. After being filled to the top, we went to Wal-Mart next door to do some grocery shopping & I got to the back of the store with my wife & a cart & my stomach started shifting; so I did the classic Robinson ploy (dad you'd be proud) of dropping everything & running to the bathroom. This isn't any bathroom though, this is a WAL-MART bathroom! Haha... I felt right at home.
Now we're back here watching the tube with the slide window door open and the fans on high :). If this is our only problem during the week then we have it pretty dang good. I could be visiting the hospital in Destin because of a stone, but... i'd rather have this problem. So we'll count our blessings. Goodnight! Thnks for all the prayers...