The Beach

We finally made it to the beach. This is what we look forward to every year when we talk about our summer vacation. The birds and the waves and the sun! We love it. This post is a summary of the past few days. We did have internet and computers while we were camping on the beach, but there never seemed to be enough time to update posts and pictures.
We left Victoria on Tuesday the 30th. We drove Earlene's car with the trailer that Popi "designed" for last year's trip. Of course, it couldn't go SMOOTHLY, so the trailer lights didn't work for some reason. We decided to try to make it the whole way and deal with it when we got there. We pulled in to our campsite at Mustang Island State Park on Tuesday around 2:00 pm.

We got our tent set up and headed over to the water - it was only about 110 that day! We took enough time at the beach to cool off a little and then came back to the site to finish setting up camp. We had spaghetti for dinner and relaxed for the rest of the evening.
Wednesday we just hung out around the beach and the campsite for most of the morning then headed in to Corpus to see where we could stay cool. We tried a mall, but it was dead, so we found a REALLY good Chinese buffet! We did a little shopping and a little hanging out in Corpus, shopping and such. Colton has had some skin issues this week, so while we were in Wal Mart, he was scratching away. We had checked him and he was broken out all around his torso, so we ran over and bought some Benadryl. Of course, this made him PASS SMOOTH OUT on the way back to camp, and he was alseep for hours. Earlene and I used our seperate computers to watch different movies that we had picked up from the Red Box.
Thursday we decided was a beach day. We went to the beach early and set up our shade canopy.

Colton swam and swam. He absolutely LOVES the ocean waves. He could be out there forever!

He did stop to eat sometimes.

This was also my mommy's birthday, so Happy Birthday, Mom!
It's always breezy in the evenings off the ocean, so Colton got to get in a little kite flying! I don't remember it being so easy when I was a kid!

That night we had watermelon with some neighbors and also got some help fixing the trailer lights.
Yesterday, Friday, we got up quite early to start packing things up. We wanted to be done before the sun came up! We made it, with the help of some clouds. We rewarded ourselves with McDonalds on the way out of town! We love McDonalds breakfast. We stopped on the way back at several t-shirt shops and the "big tree". It's a really, really, really, old tree. And it's big!

We were welcomed back at home with some lovely surprises! (sarcasm) Some kind of animal had managed to crawl into a small ice chest on the porch and die. Several days ago. Did I mention it's 110 down here!? Then we figure out there is no electricity in the house. Apparently there had been a storm here while we were gone and lightening managed to hit the pole. Ice chest to the pasture and electric company fixed the electricity and we're all good!
This is the 4th of July. We actually have no plans for the evening. We got up this morning and Colton got to make breakfast for us. He LOVES to cook.

They have these lovely creatures down here called fire ants. They love to bite your feet and toes and they sting like, well, fire! Colton being the "sensitive" boy that he is, does not agree well with these ants. He has about 5 bites on his left foot and it has now swollen so badly it looks like his poor little ankle is broken!

And we've already established that Benadryl knocks him OUT, so today we're watching movies, editing pictures, working on computers and cell phones, and keeping our feet up on ice. Well, one of us is!
Happy 4th Of July Everyone!