South Padre Island

Chip is finally home from Singapore so we took a family vacation to South Padre Island (about 7 hours South of Houston).  This was Rainey's second time at the beach and Aden's first.  Rainey loved sitting in the sand waiting for the waves to hit him.  Aden wanted to play in the sand.  We had a cabana room which opened to the pool area, and within walking distance to the beach.  We spent most of the time in the pool as the waves were really bad on the beach. 

Chip began teaching Rainey how to swim in the pool with his floaties on and did great!  We also took an interactive pirate cruise one night.  The boys loved it!!!

View from outside our door looking at the pool.

Checking out the water the first day we arrived.

At dinner

Dinner

Lunch after the pool

2 hour pirate cruise

Getting ready for the pirate ship (Rainey)

They had all the kids mopping :)

Rainey got a pirate ship painted on his leg and Aden got a shark.

Mustaches....watching the sword fighting.

Rainey sword fighting the Mexican Pirate.

I just had to drive my van on the beach.

Boys enjoying Shirley Temples at the bar before dinner.

Being silly in front of sand dunes...they were everywhere on the North end of the island.

We took a lot of pictures while we were there.  Click on the link to see them all: 
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