We left Saturday, May 31st and drove home Thursday, June 5th ~ a good 10hr trek one way. On our way into town, we stopped at Pizza Hut in Port Isabel (we always eat pizza the night we get on the Island). Usually we pick it up on our way into town, but since Meme and Grandaddy weren't coming until Monday, we ate it at the Pizza Hut. Then it was off to the Wal-Mart for groceries.
Sunday: First thing that morning, we got busy mopping the balcony. Then that afternoon, we had some pool time after nap.
After we got cleaned up, it was off to The Palmetto Inn for some good Mexican food. Meme says it was the one of the 1st restaurants on the Island. Alot of the family likes to eat at Jesse's but the last time we ate there, we had to pay for the chips and hot sauce! And the service is not conducive to hungry, sweaty little children.
After dinner, we drove out to the very end of the Island to see the sand dunes, walk along the water and gather the big, pretty seashells that you can't find on the busy part of the beach.
But before I knew it, both girls were fully clothed in the water! We had brought towels to dust off the sand but no change of clothes!
Monday: We had always heard we should try the Radisoon for their breakfast buffet. We got there and guess what? The buffet is only on the weekends. So, we ended up at McDonald's for breakfast (which Macy has been begging to do for months) and fed the whole family for the cost of what one buffet would've been. Then it was back to Wal-Mart, naps, and then the beach for real ~ to play (wearing swimsuits this time), chase birds and be on the lookout for jellyfish (4 were spotted that day!)
Antonio and the beach Barbie gang came along and Paige gave them their spa treatments.
That night we got cleaned up to go out to our favorite restaurant of all on the Island ~ Sea Ranch.
Shortly after coming home from dinner, Meme and Granddaddy showed up from the 12 hr road trip from Levelland. How an 80 and 88 year old make only one stop on a 12 hr drive astounds me...Regardless, we didn't tell the girls they were coming, so we had two excited little girls to see their great-grandparents!
Tuesday: Now that Meme was there to make her famous cheese balls for bait, Macy was ready to go fishing! She caught six catfish that morning but wouldn't share her cheese balls with Gregg ~ he didn't catch anything but seaweed and he stayed busy baiting Macy's hook.
After fishing, we headed to the Sea Turtle Rescue Center. Then we swang back by the condo to get Meme and Jimmie to go to lunch with us at Blackbeard's. Totally tradition to go there for their lunch specials.
The rest of the day was more pool time, dinner and more fishing for Macy and Gregg.
Wednesday: We all went on the morning dolphin watch boat. It is an hour and a half tour and it is alot of fun. What's not to love? Being on a boat with Kenny Chesney's music playing...oh, and I saw some dolphins too...
This was the first year at the condo that we didn't need the foldaway crib or did I take a booster seat. Paige was big enough for the twin bed and bar stools! She also fell in love with Meme's leather couches and was a bum there.
We are so fortunate to have such a nice place for our family to vacation together at...now if we could just get all of the family there at one time would make it even more perfect!
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