For Labor Day weekend we drove down to Port Aransas. Jake had Friday off so we let Emma skip school and we headed down first thing in the morning. It was a gorgeous day and the beaches were empty most of Friday and didn't really start filling up until Saturday midday.
We spent the whole day at the beach just hanging out. We spent the night in Aransas Pass and then headed back first thing Saturday for another fun day of sand and sun. We did drive over to a bird area where you were suppose to see alligators, but no luck. They said they think with the drought that they have moved some. We did get to see dolphins jumping in the water, which Emma thought was really cool.
The kids loved it when an ice cream man came walking down the beach with a cart. They even had the blue one that Nate loves (see earlier post), but we were able to talk him into something less messy.
The sand was perfect for building stuff with...or burying things. The sand looks dark in these pictures, but that is just because these are down by the water where it was wet. It was a 13 mile beach of gorgeous white sand.
We found that the reapply on sunblock doesn't work so well. The dried salt on your skin works as a great exfoliater, but the sunblock just never seemed to rub in during the later applications. 2 days spent in full sun and I got a little burn on one shoulder, Jake got a line at the top of his shorts and Emma got some on her back, but really not to bad. So I call it a success.
This is nap time beach style. Boogie board, sun hat, towel and a bottle. What else do you need?
Emma with a hermit crab. They were down in the sand and if you dug you could find them all over. Some were in really cool shells.
This is Captain Nate in his boat. We thought he'd love it, but not so much.
Emma out floating in her tube. You could easily walk out 50 yards and it was only waist deep.
Emma spent hour upon hour out on her boogie board.
We built so many sand castles. Nate's favorite was a sand couch that he could sit on. He loved it and then we had to keep making them.
Jake and Nate out in the water.
Sunblock+sand+salt water= great hairdos
Nate didn't want to get his feet wet when we first got to the beach, but by the end he was a little fish. He still had a hard time remembering not to bend over when a wave was coming.
These don't really need a caption, but its Nate with his Frisbee.Nate checking out a hermit crab
Boogie boarding.
Building sandcastles...alot of time it meant you had to build faster than Nate could knock down.
Playing with a hermit crab - I love his little laughs on this.
Getting clean before the drive home on Saturday. Yup, ocean water to clean off the ice cream.
