As a kid, my family spent many 4ths down at the coast. Some of my BEST memories as a child!
We had a little bit of a difficult time finding a place to stay in such a short time period and the fact that it was a holiday weekend, but thanks to Jeff and all the traveling he does...he was able to find a hotel room for all of us!
We arrived, ate lunch a deli called Apple Dumpling (Great little place...reminded me of The Kitchen Door here in Austin), checked into our hotel and attempted to get Grace to take a nap before we headed out for dinner. 30 minutes went by along with a couple of spankings...still not asleep. 1 hour went by more spankings...of course not asleep. 2 hours went by and 1 more spanking...I decided at this point a nap for the day was a no go and decided to let her get up. Boy, was she excited, but I was dreading dinner because I felt like she was going to be a bear. Little to my surprise, she was the BEST little thing at dinner. We ate a place in Key Allegro called Paradise Key and it was fabulous! I highly recommend this place to anyone going down to stay in Rockport. It's such a hip little place!
The next day, we went to the famous Art Festival they have every 4th of July weekend. We walked half way through the booths and Grace decided she had to go to the bathroom. Against my better judgement...my mom and I took her to one of the Port-o-Potties. Thankfully, my mom had brought some Lysol wipes and used those to sterilize the bathroom as much as I could. Leave it to my mom to think of everything! ;o) At this point, Grace had about enough. It was extremely hot and the breeze was not able to blow through the tents because the sides were down due to the vendors set up. So, Jeff and I decided to take Grace back to the car while my parents went through the rest of the art booths. Once we got to the car and got cooled down, Grace was a happy camper. We grabbed some BBQ sandwiches for lunch and then headed to the hotel pool. After swimming for a good while, it was time for Grace to take a nap. My mom gave her a bath and put her down for a nap. This time nap was breeze.
After a little nap for Grace, we all got dressed and mosied over to a Mexican restaurant to eat dinner. The food was not that good (we've eaten here many times before and the food has been fabulous) and the air conditioner was not working very well. We ate quickly and got out of there. We won't be going back to this place to say the least. We drove around town looking at properties for sale and then decided we better settle down for the firework show. Once the fireworks started, Grace decided she did NOT like them. She started to cry and ended up in my lap asleep for the rest of the production.
We had such a terrific time! There's something MAGICAL about fireworks over the bay! :o)
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How fun! It looks like ya'll had a great time. I love your picture scrapbook you made...too cute!
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