Taking it all in. This, people, is why we moved to texas. One days drive, we went to the ocean + we were in our own bed that night. I've always known I wanted to live simply. No huge house. No fancy car. Live small and travel big. Yes, it was just the gulf but we did this on a whim, with a little one no less, + hey, it's the beach. We're from the Midewest with no beach in sight except for maybe Smithville Lake + I do not do the lake.
Every summer my parents would show us the best vacation they could and we got to see some pretty cool places (ahem, Graceland!) but with a family of 5, 4 out of the 5 being ladies at that, traveling was never easy and I'm sure it took a ton of planning and stress to take our ungrateful selves on these excursions. I don't remember anything of our Corpus Christi trip from when I was a youngn' except that it was Selena's hometown. Holla! So this trip was brand new and I am now a grown up, not really, with my own family. The feeling I got when I saw Pres taking in the salt air, watching the waves and feeling the sand was unreal + made my heart skip. I thought of how my parental units must have felt when they were able to do something special for us. Though I don't remember everything about our trips, I do remember what it felt liked to see the ocean for the first time.
Pea got an ocean book this summer + has been talking about it nonstop. With everything she has learned with the combination of her ever growing vocab, she has developed a certain drive to finding out all for her herself what the wonders of the world are all about. She started to actually ask to see the ocean. The girl has seen it many times in SF but the water is chilly + she has to wear a beanie because the temps are never that high when we've been there. We wanted to do a trip to Padre but this summer went by so fast + my husband's on call shifts are plenty during that time so we hadn't gotten around to it. That last sentence has made me feel so guilty. I figured she could see it and remember it this next time we'll be in SF + I promised she would but that wasn't enough for me. I woke up Saturday and had this urge to take her and let her feel the sand and water before it got chilly in TX. I thought be here now. I couldn't think about how the summer had past and how we would go in the future. I wanted to take a chance on our present even though none of it was planned. So we did.
I don't talk politics or religion, especially on here, but whatever you believe, look at this sight. Makes me wonder how it all became and how I will explain it all to her one day.
Saying her g'byes.
Coolest park. The crowd made me think of my KC fam and the barbecues at Rosedale Park.
