It was cool and cloudy, not the best weather for a weekend at the beach, but the boys didn't care.
We drove out Thursday night (it's about a 6 hour drive, WAAAAY down at the very southern tip of Texas), and spent Friday on the beach and in the resort hot tub. The boys and Ben had fun on the beach (even got sunburned, despite the clouds), but I huddled under towels on my beach chair; I thought it was cold!!
The view from our 11th floor hotel room.
It was windy and Mosey spent a lot of his time on the beach flying a kite.
Ben made this Sandman head and Mosey thought it was pretty hilarious.
Joseph walked back and forth from the shore, collecting dead Portuguese Man-o-Wars.
Helping with the sand-castle-building.
Brigham spent ALL his time building sand castles.
His giant pyramid.
The other fun activity was getting to watch TV in our hotel room (no TV at our house). They got their fill of dumb cartoons!
Joseph hates, hates, hates getting his picture taken. I have to sneak them where I can.
Couch potato.
Saturday morning it was pouring rain, so we went to a Sea Turtle rescue place. It was really interesting.
This one was HUGE.
These are really remarkable animals.
Afterwards, we drove up to the end of the island and the boys and Ben got out and played in the sand dunes in the rain and got SOAKED.
Then we drove to Brownsville, tried to watch a movie, but it was sold out. Apparently the mall is THE place to be on Saturday afternoons in Brownsville. So we went to our hotel in Brownsville and watched Rambo and ate vending machine snacks until the reception started. The boys were good and made a showing at the reception in their suits and ties before we let them go back to the room.
We drove back Sunday morning, so it was a quick trip, but a nice getaway.
2 comments:
South Padre is my old stoppin' ground! (I even got Reuben to go there once) I grew up in McAllen and we spent quite a few weekends at SPI. I absolutely loved the sea turtle place growing up. I always begged to go. There use to be this really old lady there (she probably has died since them) and she was called the 'Sea Turtle Lady'. It was so neat to watch her with those interesting animals. She loved and cared for each one!
Great pictures!
Raegan,
Yes, the big turtle in the tank was the one that old lady's turtle, she had pictures taken with her holding him (when he was MUCH smaller, of course). She has since died, but she seemed like a great person.
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