Here are just a few of the many pictures I took while we were vacationing in beautiful coastal Georgia for the first time. I have a multitude of post ideas percolating in my brain but I’m enjoying a little down time from blogging while there’s still sand in my flip flops. I’ll be featuring one more Nashville guest blogger this week as part of  my blogcation series and then I’ll jump back on the blog wagon.

We stayed at the incredible Jekyll Island Club Hotel (I actually was lucky enough to win a family beach hotel package last summer on WeJustGotBack.com) and then visited friends from Nashville on Tybee for a night before heading back home in the 2011 Nissan Quest we put through the family road trip test.

It had been two years since our last family beach vacation and that was two years too many.

All photos edited in Picnik with special effects because I’m fantsy pants like that.

My little surfer girls on Tybee (big thanks to our friend John for the lessons. His daughter, Georgia, is a a champion surfer from Franklin, Tennessee, who spends as much time as she can in the surf off Tybee.)

Beauty and the beach.

My kick it into second wind first vacation beverage on Jekyll.

Miss A enjoying low tide on Jekyll.

Amazing view from our room at Jekyll Island Club Hotel of the pool and the intracoastal.