it’s not just waking up to the sound of the ocean or the salty air or the sinatra tunes on the radio station by the pool. it’s the place. the smell. the habits. the feelings. it takes me back to times i’ll never see again. memories. family. former selves! it’s the best. being there is the best. sharing it now with my family is the best. getting back to the routine we keep there is the best. i need it! i need it all! being there is one of my greatest comforts in life, hands down.
this was our second trip down there this year, which was suuuuuch a gift! we typically go in the spring, but i have to say, this bonus trip was perfect. we kept it sooo simple this time, too… we barely even left the property except to go to the grocery store or for steven to pick up dinner somewhere! ha! i ate my weight in pizza, which was fabulous. maddalena pretty much wanted to adopt all the baby salamanders crawling around. rocco wore approximately 2% of the clothing i packed for him… no clothes necessary, duh!
and OH, i wanted so badly to sneak out at midnight and peek around for baby sea turtles, but i was too scared and tired. but to this day i have memories of being somewhere around maddalena’s age [back when this was legal!], standing in the dark in a crowd of people watching all these tiny baby sea turtles swim out to sea!!! magical! but for good reason, the baby sea turtles are more protected now… at least i have my memories, right?
hopefully, next year when we go down we’ll be able to take the little bunners to disney for a day!!! i thought about that the whole time, but we want rocco to get just a weeee bit older to enjoy the time there.
so, anyway! this place and my sanity, they pretty much go hand in hand. and when it comes time to leave i literally feel panic well up in my chest. somehow it always feels like parting ways with so much more than just a place, and if it weren’t for the fact that we’re pretty much always racing ourselves out the door to make a flight on time, i’d probably just stand there staring for 10 extra minutes crying my own ocean into existence. which, i think, is a good thing in the end. 🙂
[and at some point in the next century i’ll have our video compiled from this trip!! fingers crossed!]
Oh I know that feeling. That end of vacation feeling. Thank goodness you get to go back there often. Not often enough but still. Enough! And Disney is always a good idea especially when they are that little they are free! Haha!
yes yes yes disney is a goal asap!!! i think we partly just want them to be old enough to at least remember so that our effort is worth it haha!!
I love these pictures sooooo much!! I've been itching for a beach day here but we have bad red tide… so waiting until that passes.
Love to all the sweet Bishops!!
oooh, the red tide!!! when we were up north in the seaside area a while back they had the red tide and we coughed every time we set foot outside!!! craziness!! love to you guys!!
This looks heavenly and made me want to go to the beach…um, yesterday! SO beautiful!