Justin and I had mentioned going on a family vacation this summer but never really planned anything out. Our summer was filling up(as summers do) and we realize we only had about 2 weekends available before school started. So we decided to take a trip to Port Aransas. We planned this trip fairly last minute as vacations go. We found a place to stay, bought some beach chairs, borrowed a tent, and decided we were good to go!
We left town Thursday afternoon and arrived at our room around midnight. Woke up the next morning and headed to the beach! Stayed for a couple hours headed to a surf shop to get Justin a boogie board and super cool $3 kite.
Then home to eat lunch and let Kaylin nap. It ended up becoming family nap time :) so instead of going back to the beach, we decided to go eat supper and be done for the night. We went to a cute little place called Moby Dicks, there was an hour long wait but the food was good and they had a cute little gift shop we walked around while we waiting. Kaylin got a bit sunburned at the beach so we bought her a little hat.
I love the energy in Port Aransas. Everyone is so laid back and chill, it seems it is truly a vacation town. Half the vehicles on the road are little dune buggies and most of the homes you see seem like rentals.
Saturday morning we got up and headed to the beach for a couple hours, Kaylin slept most of the time so we switched off being in the water.
Justin also flew the kite. There was lots of kites on the beach so it was pretty cool to look into the sky.
We headed home to eat lunch and let Kaylin nap, then headed to the beach again. After swimming and hanging out for an hour or so we started packing up everything. We headed back to the room to shower and change and went to our dolphin tour! As we drove up(5 minutes late) I realized neither of us had our wallets because they were in the beach bag in our room. Thank goodness I have my debit card number memorized! The dolphin tour was super cool!
Dolphins play with their food like a cat with a mouse! It was so neat to watch.
Dolphins like to swim in front of big boats.
We saw a ton of dolphins and our guide was very nice, informative and funny! He was missing and eye and half a finger(among other injuries) from a shark he caught then it went crazy in his boat.
We went to an old lighthouse that is no longer used however still has full time light keeper that lives there and leaves a low beam in.
We also drug a shrimp net for a few minutes and got to see what we caught. Our guide told us what each thing in the net was and put some in a small tank on the boat for us to look at and touch.
After the tour(and heading to the room for our wallets) we went to a cute little restaurant called Fins Grill. The food was great, we even bought logo shirts.
Sunday morning we got up, packed up, and turned in our keys and headed to Corpus. We went to the Texas State Aquarium, it was pretty neat!
However it would have been a lot cooler had we not been on the dolphin tour the day before and got to touch and hold stingrays and other fish. Then we headed home!
First McClure Family Vacation in the books! It will be more fun when Kaylin is older and can enjoy more activities!
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