The Beach

Finally we made it to the beach and Clara had a blast. She went way out with Chris and jumped in the waves. It was a little on the chilly side, but neither she nor Robert seemed to care much. I couldn't keep this guy out of the water. He loved it. I spent most of my time trying to keep him from eating sand. He wouldn't keep his hat on so I had to lather up his head in sunscreen.

We spent an hour or so at the beach and then went back to the hotel to get cleaned up for dinner at Rainforest Cafe. We hadn't been since Clara was a year old so she didn't remember it. She loved it. And because this was a replacement vacation, we went all out and let Clara get the souvenir cup. Now when she says, "You never let me have the souvenir cup!", we can show her this picture and say, "Galveston. October 2010. Rainforest Cafe. No souvenir cup for you!"

The next morning we had a nice continental breakfast at the hotel and then went to stroll the beach. We went to the souvenir shop on the beach and walked around it for a long time before going on down to the water.

It had been pretty chilly and windy but the sun was just starting to warm us up when we went for a walk. Robert was thrashing around in my arms trying to get to the water, so I dipped his feet in and it didn't feel cold at all. I eventually gave up and stripped him down to his diaper so he could have fun.

Chris and Clara went up the beach a ways to fly a little kite and Clara kept rolling down a little sand hill over and over. I was kept busy keeping Robert from swimming out to sea. I couldn't rest for a minute before I was chasing him and bringing him back to the shore. I was tired after about half an hour of that so we went back to the hotel and got Robert bathed, packed up the rest of our stuff and checked out. We ate at a pizza place on the seawall and then headed home. It was the perfect short, relaxing getaway.