Last week my sisters came into town for a girls weekend. It was such an amazing and refreshing weekend. My sisters, Nicky and Kenz, are the most kind, loving, loyal and fun people I know. It is always a party when they are around, so the last week has pretty much been the best!
We hit up our favorite donut place in Baton Rouge and the pool before we headed out to Pensacola for the weekend. I will miss District Donuts so embarasssingly much when we move back to Utah in the fall, haha. They have the best and most creative donuts, *amazing* kolaches–the best I’ve ever had, and our personal favorite, the most delicious Steak, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Taco.
Pensacola is a four hour drive from Baton Rouge, and the drive is gorgeous. Louisiana is one of the states covered with the most water which makes for beautiful drives over tons of lakes and swamps. We drove through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and then finally made it into Florida.
Pensacola is a small city on the coast, we stayed in a darling little house with blue siding and white shutters. The first day we spent there we visited Pensacola Beach, which is insanely beautiful! The sand is white as white can be and so so soft. I’ve been to a lot of beaches, but this sand was definitely the best out of any of them. It was super hot the day we visited and the humidity didn’t help either. But we bought a little pop up tent that helped because it gave us a little bit of shade.
My sisters two kids loved playing where the waves crashed, and Jay loved playing in the sand building “sand castles” which he would promptly destroy before they were even finished. 😉 After a couple hours he built up the courage to come into the water with us and ending up loving it so much. Definitely would’ve made his Californian, beach loving Daddy proud. 🙂
After a few hours at the beach we were roasting! So the boys and I headed home to relax before we headed to the Oar House for dinner that night.
The Oar House was so neat! It was right on water, so the views were incredible. And it had a family friendly party atmosphere with tons of yard games that you could play while you waited for your food.
The next day we got brunch at the Native Cafe. The food was delicious, but the service was really really bad. I would still recommend it, just don’t expect super kind and patient (especially with kids) waiters and waitresses. The cafe is run by Natives to the area, which is kind of cool.
After brunch we headed to the Pensacola lighthouse on the airforce base an hour or so away. The lighthouse was gorgeous.
My little sister Kenz and my sister Nicky’s two kids Jaden and Kennedy got to climb to the top of the lighthouse. Nicky and I and Jay and Charlie had to stay back because they wouldn’t let babies and toddlers up there. We wandered through the museum after and it was neat learning the history of lighthouses.
That evening we drove to Orange beach an hour away in Alabama. This was such a hidden gem! for us at least. We did not have high expectations but the city was so cool. There was lots to do and the area was drop dead gorgeous. We hit the pool in the afternoon and had some fun with my niece and nephews awesome Target floaties.
Then my sisters went to the beach after I had to drive the boys home and they said it was beautiful and relaxed. I’m hoping to go back to visit sometime, because I feel like we only cracked the surface with all of the fun things to do there.
The next couple days we spent in New Orleans and in Lafayette going on a Gator Tour. A post on the rest of the trip will be coming soon!
This place was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives for its famous Burger-from-Hell. We tried it and it was really, really hot, ha. But it had a really good, tasty flavor at the same time. This place is small, its just a tiny shack, and they only accept cash. But if you make it over there and through the line, you won’t regret it!