One fun aspect of our little trip was that we stopped at every Buc-ee's we drove by, so that was 4 different ones on our over 1200 mile trek. We had lousy weather...either we followed it, or it followed us but we did not let that hamper our good times. Our first stop was Corpus Christi, which is a long way from Dallas...we stopped in Austin for lunch we went to a place called Franks, which has amazing hot dogs. Parking in downtown Austin is a bit of a hassle so that detour took more time than planned. But in the end it was worth it.
This group of pictures are from Corpus Christi, we had a great view of the downtown marina and ate some amazing seafood. Wednesday we toured the USS Lexington (I'm guessing most of those pictures are on the regular camera) and the state aquarium, we saw the statue of Selina on our way to dinner, and got interviewed for the local news!
The next leg of the trip was Galveston, we fell in love with this place and did not have nearly enough time to explore and check it out in more detail. More amazing seafood, but also one of the most amazing experiences...I believe we were saved by a guardian angel! We were walking along the Seawall back to our hotel, this guy on a bicycle, stopped us to talk military (Bill always gets a lot of that kind of attention when he wears his Navy hat.)...he kept throwing praise God and God is good at random times and he was almost manic...when we were through talking to him and continued on I said he was a little crazy, but nice at the same time...just then Bill says did you see that...I did not see, but heard a crashing sound and saw a car sitting down on the beach...not sure exactly what happened but the car went off the road, over the seawall and landed on the beach....people were rushing and stopping from all directions, once we saw the situation was under control we continued on. Bill said it was divine intervention (and he does not talk in spiritual terms at all); if that guy had not stopped us and engaged in that odd conversation, we would have been at the point where the car went over the wall!
We plan on going back there sometime soon.
The last stop of our trip was to see Kaylee, number 1 grand-daughter (although she is 4th in the grandchild line, we went to the Kemah Boardwalk and as you can see she was not impressed with the Stingrays!
Kaylee was impressed with T-Bone Toms, a restaurant that has been featured on Triple D and so was grandma. She also thought her first Merry go round ride was pretty spectacular. Kaylee and Shari head back to North Carolina in a few weeks, so it was extra special we had this little visit.
I only hit my step goal one day and my weight maintained, but I consider that a success. I think the picture of me standing on the seawall, really shows the transformation.
