Excitement Reigns

We are so excited around here...our favorite brown eyed grandson is arriving this afternoon on an airplane into Birmingham. Our favorite granddaughter is accompanying us to pick him up.

Home Again, Home Again

We are now home after driving 16 hours today! I'll fill in details of our time spent since the beach in the next couple of days.

Last Day

We ate breakfast,

packed up, and then loaded the stuff in the car.

Then we were "on the road again"!

We drove to Galveston where we passed the Bishop's Palace.

We also stopped at the far end of the island to see the ships in the Houston ship channel.

When we got to Houston, we had lunch at Pappasito's. The enchiladas and beef tacos were great.

After we got to Lufkin, we had some errands to run and then went to dinner with Deb, Sid and Jim.

It was a great trip and glad we did it!

Surfside, Day 3

It was cereal again this morning and then time to "hit the big ones" or at least go to the beach. Since it was more of the same from yesterday, there's not much to add!

By late afternoon, it was time for us to pack up our tent and chairs .

For supper, we went to the Red Snapper Resturant and had a wonderful meal of chicken fried steak and home fries for Jim and jumbo fried shrimp with salad, baked potato and black eyed peas for Mike and me. We dove into our meals before we realized that we forgot to take a picture!

After we ate , we drove to the Port of Freeport to see if we could see any of the cargo ships that we have seen heading that way. But when we got there, we couldn't get close enough to see any ships...we were disappointed.

Surfside, Day 2

After breakfast this morning, Mike and Jimmy took the car to the beach and began setting up the canopy.

That was really hard work and required a little nap!

The day consisted of reading, sleeping, getting in the water, walking the beach and then doing those things over again.

We cleaned up and went to supper at an interesting "dive" where we all had hamburgers and onion rings or fries.

We came back and took a walk on the beach.

Side Notes

Just to say congratulations to Payne for making All-Stars again this summer...baseball continues.

Also a Happy Birthday wish to Ashley, the favorite Missouri niece.

We're Heading to the Beach

We told Sid and Deb good bye this morning and went to pick up Jim and head to the beach. He was packed and ready to go when we got there!

We stopped in Houston to eat at Mo's bar-b-que and it was as good as ever.

The drive to Surfside Beachwas pleasant but hot!

We arrived with no problems and quickly found our accomodations for the next few days.