Beach Trip

In late July/early August, we went to the beach in Port Aransas with Grandpa and Gramma Ninny, Aunt Brynn, and cousins Grayson and Garrett. Grandpa and Gramma Ninny rented a nice little beach house for all of us to stay in, which was just a short walk over the boardwalk to the beach. It was perfect!

We had a great time except for the little incident when Garrett got stung by a sting ray! He was in a lot of pain and we weren't sure if the barb was in his foot, so we ended up calling the ambulance to come check out his foot. There was no barb, and we found out that to treat a sting ray sting, all you do is soak it in very hot water for about 45 minutes and then treat it with iodine and bandage it up. As soon as Garrett put his foot in the hot water, the stinging went away, and we was walking on it a couple hours later. Eli liked seeing the ambulance in action, and thankfully everything turned out to be okay.

The day we left, John and I took they boys to the Texas Aquarium in Corpus Christi. What a cool place! We saw many different kinds of sea life as well as a dolphin show. The USS Lexington ship is right next to the aquarium, so we stopped there. The boys loved checking out the ship. It's huge!

So, it was a fun vacation all around. I love driving only 3 and 1/2 hours for a beach vacation!