The Adams: July 2010

Pensacola Beach, Florida. We stayed in a condo on the beach, we could hear the ocean and watch the waves from our deck, which was three stories high. We were technically only on the second story but since everything in Pensacola Beach is on stilts, it's a long way up. We fished every day. We went to Fort Pickens where Jordan caught a shark, and my mom and I explored the old civil war fort there. We also fished at Casino beach where the Pier, I swear, was at least a mile long. We Visited the Naval Air Museum where we saw more planes in one room than i had seen in my entire life. We went on a simulation ride with the Blue Angels and got to step back in time to a 50's era kitchen, and met Lucky, the Marine War Dog who only drank beer. We Left Jay at the condo to nap, one afternoon and made our way to the Pensacola Lighthouse, which was located on the Navy Base. We walked through the old house and climbed 177 steps all the way to the top, where after our trek to the top, and being soaking wet from sweat and humidity, they gave us a sticker... seriously a sticker thats said "I climbed the 177 stairs. Pensacola Lighthouse." How cheap. The spiral staircase was wrought iron and was way to small for the traffic going up and down since the only rail was on the outside of the stairs along the wall. We nearly died in the 100 degree heat, with only a small breeze and the suffocating humidity, but the view from the top was worth the trip. (The lighthouse by the way is on an episode of Sci-fi's TAPS, which is like ghost hunters, there's an interesting story there if you're interested.) I never got out of my swimming suit, we sat on the beach all day. I had that beautiful sugary white sand between every toe, inside every article of clothing, and all over in my hair. We ate seafood on the beach, went to Waffle House every day and fell asleep to the sound of the ocean. We never wanted to come home. Luckily enough(I guess) we didn't have to come home as soon as planned. We made the hour flight from Pensacola to Atlanta, then we made the three and a half hour flight from Atlanta to Denver, where in Denver Delta Decided to cancel our flight with no information as to why or what to do, in fact they were very rude. so we marched to the main Delta desk and informed them of the situation and they fix the issues by giving us two rooms free for the night at a nice hotel, dinner vouchers for the night, and breakfast vouchers for the next morning, they then gave us small over night kits since our bags made it to Salt Lake without us, and they booked us on the first flight out in the morning... lovely. So we stayed an unplanned night in Denver before we got into our no-extra-charge first class seats to Salt Lake. (First class isn't much different from coach other than the seats are slightly bigger, and you get your drink and peanuts before everyone else.) Now for the pictures....