beach access #4
it took us over six hours to get there. we had loaded the ipad with movies hoping that would occupy their attention. not so. it got used for angry birds a few times, #2 son screamed a good bit of the last half of the trip. #2 son knows that everybody else has their own iphone/itouch, so he made it clear that the ipad 2 was HIS, "this is MY! BIG! IPHONE! OK? NOT. YOURS. OK!?" he told us all.
it's funny how greed, or posession of something valuable is such a natural instinct. #2 son also noticed that the older two kids often argue over who gets the nintendo charger in the car. he didn't own a nintendo but he claimed the charger as well, even though has no use for it "it's MY CHARGER! OK!?, NOT. YOUR. CHARGER! IT'S MINE!"
we'd had so much drought that we didn't even think of a possibility of it raining on our so padre island vacation. but the sky went dark, and about 15 miles from the island it started to rain. we were greeted by the hurricane warning. quick check of the iphone and a prediction of 70% chance of rain every day.
but the skies cleared and the sun did shine and we did enjoy a good time at the beach, no rain!
we like to drive north of the hotel/condo zone and hit beach access number four. we take everything we need for a full day at the beach.
we take a grill and make our own lunch.
#2 son ate a WHOLE bratwurst! a seagull stole another right off the grill. that left us a bit short. but we made do, and made sure to watch the grill better the next day.
the kids made new friends every day.
watch out for those top shelf happy hour magraritas at pier #19. johnny has a heavy pour! good for us this place is a few steps from where we camp the airstream. you don't want to operate heavy machinery after those things!
potty training has good days and bad days, luckily the pier is far out over the water for diaperless accidents.
we also enjoyed HH at the padre island brewing co. #1 had the raw oysters on the half shell.
she always celebrates her birhday there. she ate the entire desert. the boys went upstairs and played pool.
we had some wheat beer.
kat really liked the frog's legs from daddy's (across the street from padre island brewing co)
but we made good use of the airstream and had most of our meals there. we even took some frozen pizza and put our own fresh toppings on. fresh baked biscuits for every breakfast too.
with each person now having their own sleeping space, we were in no rush to get home.
COUSIN PARTY
my sister was in town for a short while before we left for SPI, it was good for the cousins to play together.
