We took advantage of the cooler weather and a weeekend off and went to Corpus Christi. We have lived here in San Antonio for almost six years and have never made it down there. It would have been nice to stay longer, but now we have more information to make the next trip better.
Me being the procrastinator that I am forgot to make reservations day after day. We were going to stay at the Navy lodge, but they were booked by the time we called. That was okay, we decided to rough it and go camping on sites that they have on the Naval Air Station. Lots of lessons learned here: #1 Bring tons of bug repellent! After the rain we've finally had in the last couple weeks, the mosquitos have flourished. Louisiana is supposed to be the mosquito capital of the world....not anymore! I have never seen swarms of mosquitos like this. As soon as we pulled up to the campsite and opened the doors they were EVERYWHERE! Poor Logan faired the worst. They seemed to like him the most, even though we sprayed him down. Maybe he's super sweet...he even has some bites on his head:( #2 Bring a pack-n-play for the 20 month old or a tent just for him. We figured: it's just one night, he'll do fine right?? Nope. Logan, went to sleep decently because he was exhausted, but when Bryan and I went to bed later he woke up and was awake for a while. I'm sure the entire campsite loved his crying at midnight/0100/0200. I even put him in the van and drove around the base hoping he'd fall back asleep...didn't work. Eventually he got too exhausted to fight it and sacked out. And because he was so tired, he wasn't the friendliest boy today. Today at the beach he fell asleep while I was holding him in the water and then slept all the way home (3 hours) and went to bed without any complaint. #3 Go to the beaches in Padre Island instead of Corpus....they are much nicer. But now we know for next time. We went to the beach on Padre Island on Friday night because the boys were begging to go to the beach and that's where we were closest to. But Saturday we went to the aquarium in the morning and didn't feel like driving back to Padre Island to go to the beach. So we just went to the one right by the aquarium...not nearly as nice.
The Texas State Aquarium was pretty nice. The boys really enjoyed looking at all the different fish and they really enjoyed the dolphin show and exhibit. The coolest exhibit was this massive aquarium with all kinds of huge fish, sharks, and even a sea turtle. I could sit and look at it all day. You can kind of see it in the background of the picture where Logan is swinging on the guardrail above. I was trying to get a shark in the background...but it wouldn't cooperate. This was the first trip to the beach for all three boys and they did pretty good. Clark and Taylor were a little hesitant around the water at first. But they warmed up to it eventually. Taylor especially decided he liked the beach. When it was time to leave he kept going back in. And of course, they both loved playing in the sand with their buckets and shovels. Logan enjoyed sitting right at the edge of the water and throwing sand. Nobody wanted to be sitting too close to him.
Overall a good trip and hopefully we'll get back sooner than another six years!
