Blue-Green Friday

The Friday after Thanksgiving, we went to Destin.

Destin is a town on the Florida panhandle, and people go there for the shopping and the beautiful beaches. It's on Florida's Emerald Coast, named for the clear green water of the Gulf, but it's really more of a blue-green than an emerald.

We thought our hotel room might have a partial view of the beach. But it turned out to be right on the beach with an amazing view of the Gulf.

 We spent a lot of time just looking out the window.

And hanging out on the balcony.

 This is what it looked like at sunrise.

I went for a long walk on the beach every morning.

The waves were translucent green in the early morning. The sea looked like it was made of glass.

I walked over to the park that was a couple of miles from our hotel. No one else was out there. It was a little chilly -- in the 50s every morning -- but the sun was warm.

Until a fog rolled in.

 But before long the sun was back out, and the sea was back to its amazing blue-green color.

We did a lot of Christmas shopping in Destin on Saturday. On Sunday, I went to this donut shop that I had visited the last time I was in Destin -- several years ago, with Jennifer.

 They still had red velvet donuts.

 Then David and I went to Henderson Beach State Park.

 We walked up and down on the white-sand beach and looked at the amazing Gulf.

 We watched birds and crabs.

It was the perfect way to spend the weekend after Thanksgiving.