The Beach!

After busy season, JP's office closed for a Thursday and Friday to give them a long weekend.  JP and I decided to take this opportunity to go to the beach.  We didn't find out about the office closing very far in advance so there were not a lot of places still available.  I have realized that I am somewhat picky about where I stay and everything available just didn't seem up to par.  Until, JP found this little gem.

 

 At just $100 a night, we felt, as JP would say it was a "smokin' deal."

It is the perfect size for 2 people with the top floor being the living space and kitchen and the bottom the bedroom. Instead of the cheesy, cheap looking, brightly colored, beach themed decorations of most of the condos we looked at, this place had classy looking, home like decorations.  As the owner stressed to JP, several items including the comforter are from anthropologie.

It is not located on the beach but that was not really a big deal.  It is directly across the street and there is a private drive on the beach where you can park your car.  It takes just a much time to get to the beach as it would if you were on the 17th floor of a condo on the beach.

The atmosphere was fantastic and very relaxing.  The community was very quiet as well.  It is in a newer development of beach houses and is, in my opinion, Orange Beach's attempt at being like Seaside.

We saw tons of different birds, bunnies, frogs, and this little guy.


 

I think it was a MUCH better place to stay than Sugar Beach, the place we stayed the last time we went to the beach.  We could actually see Sugar Beach from the deck, which we thought was funny.




The owners of the house provided bikes and there was a trail that took you from the community through the State Park.

The community had a very nice lap pool...

that the swimmer of the group

enjoyed using every morning.


JP always insists that we stay in a condo because he wants to have a kitchen.  Although we always go out to eat on vacation, he likes to cook some too.  This time we bought a lot of fresh shrimp for dinner one night and used the leftovers to make shrimp quesadillas for lunch.


Don't worry. We ate out too.  Our two favorite places in Orange Beach are Doc's and The Oyster House (mainly for their peanut butter pie!).

Overall we would highly recommend this cute little house.  If you are ever interested, let me know I can give you the contact information of the owner!