Beach Trip 2012

PHOTO HEAVY!! 

This last weekend at the beach was perfect. It was exactly what we both needed. Our little house was walking distance from the beach. We spent our days on the beach and our nights grilling and watching Psych and drinking wine. It was wonderful.

CRAZY STORY:

We did get off to a pretty rough start though. The trip there was already making both of us edgy, we were exhausted and just ready to get there. There are no interstates that take you from Nashville to Panama City Beach so we had to take back highways almost the entire way. We were driving through Alabama, almost to the Florida state line and we came up on a little town. The speed limit went from 55 to 35 pretty quickly, and Steve started slowing down. We saw a cop up ahead, and immediately I had a bad feeling. There was a truck in front of us that was clearly going way faster than we were, but the cop pulled out behind us and turned on his lights. We pulled over and he came to the window, asked for Steve's license and insurance and said he was probably going to let us go soon. Then he asked Steve to get out of the car and go talk with him back in-between the two cars. This made both of us pretty nervous. The cop asked Steve if there were any drugs, or weapons or alcohol in the car. Steve said no but the cop didn't believe him. Steve was already nervous and the cop had sunglasses on so Steve apparently kept looking around and the cop said that was a sure sign he was lying. He was convinced we had drugs or weapons in the car. He told Steve that he had two options. He could tell him what we had in the car and we could be out of there in 20 minutes or he could call his partner down with the drug dogs and they could search the car and if they found anything we would both be going to jail. Steve was in shock, he couldn't believe that this cop didn't believe him. The cop then said he had another option. He could come talk to me and see if I had the same story. He came up to my window, and asked me the same thing, if there was anything in the car and if there was I needed to tell him right now because if he found something we would go to jail. I of course said there was nothing and he said that was good enough for him and he let us go. Steve was so shaken up and I kind of was too. Of all people, we couldn't believe that had happened to us. I'm not even sure what weed smells like. That is definitely one of the most memorable road trips I have ever been on. 

Anyway, here are lots of pictures, mostly of the beach and sunsets, of our weekend:

 

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