For the first time ever, my family decided to go to Florida for Spring Break. We always shyed away from it because we were a little concerned about all those crazy kids down there, and many without adult supervision. One thing I like to make sure of when I am on vacation is that I get enough SLEEP. I didn't want partying teenagers keeping me awake all night! But we got jealous of all those people coming back to school and work in early April with those beautiful tans and looking all relaxed..... so we went for it!

Our friends Mary and Jim have several condos in Panama City, and they were also going down, so we decided to go there. My husband had to be back at work on Thursday night, so we had to leave Saturday morning and start on our way back on Wednesday - only 3 real days on the beach.

I've always said I have this black cloud following me around. It's one of the reasons I don't fly. It just seems like at times I have terrible luck. Well, this would be no exception. It wasn't the partying kids we needed to worry about though, it was the weather!! When we arrived in Panama City it was 55 degrees!!!! The entire time we were there it was cloudy, windy and cold. I don't know if it ever got over 60! Now, you might think that 60 is pretty warm.... not on the beach! The wind coming off of that ocean makes it feel much colder than 60.

We decided to leave a day early and come back home. But, of course, the beautiful weather returned to the Emerald Coast on Thursday (the day we went back to work) where the temperature hit 80 degrees with beautiful sunny skies..... At least Mary and Jim were able to pull out a few beautiful days.

Being a photographer, I always have to take family photographs wherever we go, and this was no exception. We were soooo cold in this picture! My ears hurt they were so cold!