4th of July Spectacular!!!! Panama City Beach FL!

Work in Florida on the beach and over the 4th of July....of course...sign me up! This trip was my first Fairfield hotel opening and I was SOOOO excited....Fairfield is where I started my Marriott career and is my first love of all our 19 brands! It also was awesome because I got to train a new guy who is joining our team as a task force trainer, it was nice to be in FL and have someone to share the beauty with! Jeff was an awesome partner in crime for the week and we had a great time training an amazing staff. They are currently ranked 4th out of 890 Fairfield Inn and Suites, they were an amazing team that we had such a great week with! We also got some time with my boss Joe, as he drove over from Orlando, it was good to see him and I got some great feedback about my training week. It was a great week and one of the best opening nights have seen (until Canada, more on that later) they had 35 walk in reservations on opening night, it was busy around the hotel. Joe's family joined us later on opening day and I got to meet sweet baby James, he is so adorable and still has that new baby smell! Travel home was interesting as I drove to Ft. Walton Beach about an hour away to catch a cheaper flight and it ended up getting canceled so I stayed at a Marriott in Ft. Walton, went to Ross to buy a travel outfit home and traveled the next day with my life in a laundry bag! Life of a travel chick!!!

The first day we made it to FL...after training we were determined to make it to see the water!

Beautiful water!!!! We saw a bit of the green algae, but it wasn't that bad!

4th of July on the beach! Not as many people as we thought, but more and more kept showing up. Such a good time and such fun people!

4ht of July on the beach....after a full day of training we grabbed a throw away cooler, some snacks and watched the beach fireworks. It was magical!!!!