Hughes X'S 4: Siesta Key.....part I

{ We have GREAT friends.....LOTS of them....I'm not bragging....we'll maybe I am...YES I AM! I ~~can~~ should brag because they deserve to be placed on pedestals....& the greatness they posses has not a 1 single thing to do with us!}

We were invited to join our friends {the Musicks} to their family's beach house in Siesta Key, FL! Our answer to a free place to stay? DUH!!

We were quickly greeted by a bird that has been rightly nick-named "hot dog bird" for his nightly visits to the back porch....

for hot dogs, of course!!

We headed to the beach for a short visit before the sun set only to be face to sky with gorgeous shades of grey & black! So we headed back to the house for dinner....joining couches together to make a "crows nest"....

& explore our home for the next few days!

There were so many things about this house that took me happily back to my childhood....days spent at my great-grandparents house....like twin beds! {side fact: you can join 2 twin beds....pile a couple blankets in the crack & it instantly can sleep 4 people!} The only difference, I think my great-grandparents read actual hard covered books....not virtual ones!

Jon & I got up early {in vacation terms!} the next morning to run! We took a little detour along the way....who wouldn't?

Upon return to the house breakfast was wolfed as quickly as possible because there was much of this fun to be had:

We experienced a 1st as a family....I found a starfish!

Needless to say we were just as excited as the kids....I will fully confess to the fact that I excitedly said YES to keeping it but with much handling an appendage fell off & we decided to release him back to the ocean where he would grow a new one!