Summer Vacation - Galveston

Our parents recently did the unthinkable!  They left us for ten days to take a vacation to the beach!  Can you believe it????  They weren't gone the full ten days, but due to the kennel's hours, they had to take us the night before and pick us up the day after their return.  Served them right to see the $$bill$$ when they picked us up!

Our parents traveled to Galveston, Texas, for their vacation.  They hadn't been to the beach together in a looong time (about eighteen years).  Mommy had never been to the Gulf of Mexico.  It was a full week of mostly relaxing days.  That's a welcome change from their vacations in recent years (or so Daddy says).

Mommy only had three items on her agenda for the week in addition to working on her tan.  (For those of you who don't know Mommy personally, that's very little; she usually tries to cram in at least three items a DAY!)  She wanted to go to the Johnson Space Center in nearby Houston, tour a retired oil rig, and possibly take a dolphin sightseeing boat ride.  She managed to convince Daddy to do all three.

We'll start with her first item: working on her tan.  They stayed on the lower half of the island away from the tourists.  It was wonderful (or so they tell us, remember we weren't there!).  Most mornings, they had the beach all to themselves!

Mommy took a picture of this sign since she'd never seen a seaweed warning before.  And there was a lot of seaweed each morning.  The sign suggests searching for seahorses, but they never found any and they searched and searched and searched some more.  Daddy said they probably had hidden cameras somewhere on the beach to see how many idiots read the sign and then looked at the seaweed!  The only item on this sign they found were sea beans.  Those are pretty cool!

Don't you think this jellyfish should have survived until at least Halloween???

Just two of many handfuls of seashells they brought home.

Daddy tried out the boogie board . . . Mommy did too.  Daddy was better than Mommy.

One of Mommy's favorite pictures from the week taken on a seashell and seahorse hunt.

Daddy tried to re-enact Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.  He insisted on feeding the birds Pringles potato chips over Mommy's head.  Mommy was not thrilled.  She was afraid of getting pecked to death or having a bird caught up in her curls!

From the balcony of their room, our parents had a great view of the setting sun each night.  Mommy enjoyed running outside to watch it. 

We'll be back to show you more of their overly long vacation (in our opinion) later.  Our parents say they highly recommend this beach as long as you stay away from the main drag.

[sigh]
Dixie, Jenna & Ruger