The long way home

On the way home
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Family photo on the balcony before we left the beach.

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“Goodbye Beach!”

Since Galveston is so close to home we took an interesting route back home after we packed up the car. We drove across the bridge to check out Surf Side and see the areas for rent houses around there. It’s a cute little town and clearly the surfers like it there. Then we headed over to pop in on the twins 2nd birthday party. Thanks for the invite Jen and Chris!

On the way home

Adorable boys!! I love them.

On the way home

After our pop in at the party we headed back into Houston to go to the Hobbit Cafe. It’s been there for like 40 years and I have wanted to try it on our many visits down there. I found the menu had some really bizarre combinations, but the food was great. The outside of it is really cool and I do like the big tree coming up through the middle of the patio and bar area, but I have to be honest that the inside didn’t impress. They basically had movie posters up and some figurines. I guess I was expecting the place to be Lord of the Rings nerded out. And from a marketing standpoint, if I owned it, I would play it up. Especially with 2 more Hobbit movies coming out in the next two years.

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On the way home

After our bellies were completely stuffed we headed home. What a wonderful week we had at the beach! There will be no more trips now until we cross the ocean to meet Dani!

Day 6 & 7 at the beach

Day 6 & 7
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Sweet cousins. 

On Thursday of our week at the beach we spent about 7.5 hours on the beach and it was so fun! Then on Friday Jen, Chris and the boys joined us for a few hours. It was the twins first trip to the beach and it was so great to share that time with them.

Day 6&7

Day 6&7

We saw this very cool hermit crab that Amelie wanted to watch, but not touch 🙂

Day 6&7

Nadia was saying, “I’m Aquaman! Outrageous!”

Day 6&7

Day 6&7

Day 6&7

Day 6&7

The boys were really cute when the waves would come up.

Day 6&7

The girls had endless hours of fun together on this trip.

Day 6&7

Day 6&7

These were the last two photos I took on the beach before we packed everything up and the sun went down.

Day 4 & 5 at the beach

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The girls set all the animals up to watch us at the beach.

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I didn’t take a lot of photos these two days because we were just doing more of the same (which was wonderful). We did head into town to have dinner at the Spot and then pick up some more supplies for the week. And FYI – all I ordered for dinner was onion rings because they are awesome.

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A sign up at the upstairs eating area of the restaurant.

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Silly girls so happy in the ocean.

Day 3 at the beach

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The day involved a beach to ourselves, lots of digging & swimming for the girls and relaxing for the parents. So basically perfect 🙂

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This is Old Obi Wan steering the boat with the force because the wheel fell off. Nadia makes me laugh.

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The Pelican Brief

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