I live in Jacksonville, Florida.
My husband and I used to go overseas once a year for a big vacation.
Then we had our son. Our boy doesn’t travel well. So we are now restricted to only going places we can drive. We also can’t drive our son far or he gets really upset. Recently I started hunting around the state of Florida trying to find a good vacation destination. This is how I landed in St. Petersburg, FL. There is so much to do in St. Petes. You can go to the beach, go shopping, golf, or just hang out at the hotel. Our son is only one year old right now. So that means I just needed to find a swanky hotel right on the beach. We were walking distance to the sand. I took my son to the beach everyday. I would pick him up and walk him to the ocean. We then would crawl and toddle around in the wet sand. Later we would hit the pool. Sometimes if we were really crazy the three of us would walk around St. Petersburg, my son in the stroller of course. I am really glad we did that trip. It was a huge success. The weather was perfect too. I scheduled us to go right in the spring. The spring weather is ideal for St. Petersburg. I didn’t want my son to be in trouble from a sunburn but I didn’t want cold weather. We also were out of peak season and got our hotel for a nice rate.