Thursday, July 3, 2008

Our Trip to Port Aransas, TX

As a Christmas present for me and Adam, my boss let us stay in her mother-in-law's condo on Mustang Island/Port Aransas. When we arrived, we ate at a very piratey restaurant and looked at the gift shops. Quite a few had shark-mouth entrances.



BEAUTIFUL flowers and palm trees everywhere!



Then we went to the beach. It was apparently seaweed season, and it had all washed up on shore. It was creepy in the water when it grazed our legs...a couple days later it wasn't so bad.

Adam and I played in the sand. He built a house, and found this little guy living in it.


I played in the sand and built an alien that turned out to look more like the devil...hmm...

Adam tried twice to build a fire on the beach. The second time was successful, despite the incredible wind coming off the coast. It turned out very well, and the warmth felt good :o) We built a wall in front of it to help keep the wind away.


Me looking oh-so-sexy on the beach!


We took a helicoptor tour of the beach. I feel so much better in a helicoptor than I do an airplane. It was so smooth!



We also took a dolphin watch boat tour and got to see real wild dolphins! Everytime we took a picture, they would go back underwater.



We drove into Corpus Christi and went to the Texas State Aquarium. They had a dolphin training show, which I loved, and lots of other things. They had a whole room full of different jelly fish, some were HUGE, and some were very small but created their own rainbow light. We also got to touch sting rays. They're kind of jelly-like.


Next to the aquarium was the U.S.S. Lexington. I couldn't get over just how big it was!


It was a super-wonderful, much needed vacation for us. We definately need to have a couple's vacation every year!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Hottie,

Glad you two had fun! :-)

It's about time you two went on vacation!

penners said...

It looks like you guys had a great time!

In high school 2 years our band trip was to Port Aransas. We also had a beach covered in seaweed (and jelly fish) but they came out a couple times a day and cleaned it all up... it was a private beach for the hotel... wouldn't it be funny if you guys stayed in the same place? Anyway... seeing this makes me look even more forward to our short trip to San Antonio in a month!

:)