Walking Backwards

Back from the beach, finally. It was fun; not fun like I expected, but fun none the less. Sadly, we didn't get to hit the waves because the beach was so yucky with seaweed. This was not me just being obsessive about cleanliness, there was a barrier about four feet wide and a foot high of the stuff at the shoreline. Not only that, there was a wall of seaweed taller than Joe at the high tide line that a front loader was attempting to move out of the way. It look like it went straight down along the coast; we couldn't see the end of it. We did build a small sandcastle, we buried Nico in the sand, and we walked along the shore looking at the seagulls and all the people. That was about all we could do on the beach. Good thing the hotel had a pool. Nico had a good time and kept demanding to go outside, even after it got dark.

I was so thrilled because we had cable at the condo. I think I spent all of Nico's naptimes watching HGTV. I now have a little more inspiration/motivation to finish some of the stuff around the house. One of the shows that I saw was designers/landscapers challenge where people set a budget and then pick between three presentations from designers/landscapers as to which one they want to use. The show itself wasn't too bad (and one of our friends is going to be on the landscaping one as a designer here in Austin), but what are people thinking with these budgets. They obviously have more money than they know what to do with. The landscaping show we saw had a budget of 50k just to do the front yard! Holy crap, that is almost a third of my mortgage!

Nicholas was so much fun this weeked and he was really well behaved too, until we went to the Texas State Aquarium; then he ran around like a crazy man. We had to miss the dolphin show because I couldn't handle almost losing him in a crowd of people again. On the way back we stopped by the outlet mall in San Marcos and I got all of Nicholas' summer clothes and a new tea kettle, which I am disturbingly excited about. Then all the way back home for sleep and laundry and Grey's Anatomy. Not too bad.

I am going to try to dump some of our copious amounts of photos this afternoon, but I do have mountains of things to do since my week is going to be interrupted on Thursday with the arrival of my mother and Joe just called to tell me I need to drop something off at his workplace. I should also get some stuff done for Nico's party since it is now less than a week away. More later with photos . . . hopefully tonight.