We just got back from S. Padre Island, texas. The Beach, yea. Me - Kyna, Daniel, and Cody. We left on Thursday around midnight, just as soon as Daniel got home from work. He works 2nd shift. The car was packed and ready to go when he got home. It was a long drive, 9 hours, 548 miles. Daniel was pumped and he talked almost the whole way there. That was good, because I couldn't have made the long drive with out that. Kyna n Cody slept or tried to sleep in the overcrowded back seat of the Explorer. They had an Ice chest and clothes bag in the floor, so they had thier legs up on the seat the whole way.
I love road trips, and we don't take them often enough. The only problem is that no one else in my Family likes to go. I guess I am going to have to get brave and just go on my own one of the these days. Anyway - back to this trip.
We drove all night, and driving thru the area of the Texas that is just ranch land, we say a family of Coyote's standing by the side of the road. This area is deslolate, with lots of mesquite trees and cactus and nothing else. It was nice to see nature.
We arrived at SPI around 9 am, then met my Brother and His wife and there two dogs, Star and the newely adopted DUDE. Both dogs are pomaranians, and Dude had a skin problem and all of his hair on his back side fell out. He looked so funny, but he was so sweet. We put our Tent up on thier site on Friday. The kids went to play on the beach, while I set it and I got really burned on my arms and neck.
That night we went out on a boat to see the dolphins, and watch fireworks. It was great. Saturday morning the kids had surf lessons, I had to move the camp site, because my Brother was leaving and we could'nt have the same site on Saturday.
I finally got that done in time to see the kids surf a little, then we relaxed on the beach for a little while, went to a great seafood restaruant and came back to the tent in the evening. The kids were all really burnt and in pain, even tho we did use sunscreen, the Texas sun was just too hot and they all got burnt. The salt water also caused thier feet to swell and they were miserable. We decided to cut our trip short by one day and drive home on Sunday, rather than Monday.
On Sunday, we got up, packed up the camp, drove out the the far end of the island, North padre. It was beautiful, pristine empty beach and large sand dunes. I loved being out there. We picked up shells and enjoyed an hour or so on the beach. Then we drove back into town, the Kids went parasailing and then we got in the car and drove home. The drive home was a little harder because everyone was tired and did not want to talk much.
We got home about 11:30 pm and a large storm hit about 15 minutes later. That storm was bad, and several people were injured and lost thier homes just 10 miles down the road from us.
