Niceville Trip...and yes, it is a nice place

The day after graduation, Darrell & I flew to Florida to have a wedding open house down there (I'll blog about that next) and spend time with his family. We decided it would be fun to have the open house on the beach, so Darrell's mom found the PERFECT beach house to have it at in Destin. His parents ended up renting the beach house for a week so we got to stay there for a few days. My family also came down and stayed in the house and it was just a big party. While my family was there, we all spent time getting things ready for the open house, laid around at the beach, and played games. It is so beautiful there! I keep telling Darrell he is so lucky that he grew up about 15 minutes from the beach.

After my family left, we moved over to the Kelly's house and the party continued. We had so much fun and were extremely spoiled! Some of the highlights included:

Parasailing!

Going to a water park

Going to a cool restaurant on the beach to hear Darrell's best friend's Dad sing and play guitar

Getting a behind the scenes tour of the air force base from Darrell's Lt. Col. father

 Going to the Gulfarium

Going on a dinner cruise (where we got to take turns steering the boat)

& eating at lots of delicious restaurants.

I definitely got my first real taste of good southern cooking. I must say I'm a definite fan of country-fried steak. Unfortunately, I did not over come my lack of interest in sea food...

We had such a fun trip and were sad to come back to Utah. It was great spending more time with Darrell's family. I honestly don't think I could have hand-picked a better family to marry into. We are already looking forward to more trips in the future!