Beach Bound it is for the Morris Family

We were so excited to go out of town to the beach for a quick getaway.  I was excited to see how Carter would react since it was his 1st time and he is now very aware of things going on around him.  This was Logan's 2nd beach trip.  The last time he was just a little over 2 years old, so I figured he would enjoy it even more.  They both had a blast.  At first Carter was a little apprehensive when a wave would come and he would turn and run the other way.  He eventually got braver the more time he spent beach side.  We were unable to really relax because Carter kept getting pummeled by waves even at the edge so you constantly had to keep your eyes on him and at your side.  Also, there seemed to be an abundance of jellyfish washing up on the shore, so I was a little on edge about one of the kids getting stung or even ourselves!  We found some cool little clams and sea snails that we collected and watched.  We tried to play in the sand and build a castle but it didn't work as well as we wanted and Carter kept running off.  Logan finally got to fly his Lightning McQueen kite that he got for his birthday!  He was so excited!  Gwen met some little girls that pulled up next to us on the beach and played on the boogie boards with them.  Finally we had been beat up by the sun and headed to the hotel.

Here is a little clip of some of our beach action....I noticed when I watched it there was a lot of me filming water toward the end...that was because I was worried about Carter going under!!

The last time we visited the beach as the family, we stayed in Corpus instead of on the island, so we didn't get much beach time and then were trapped in a tiny hotel room with no kid friendly programming and it was TORTURE!  This time we stayed on the island and were just blocks away from the beach, shops and restaurant strip in the heart of Port Aransas.  The boys had NO nap so we were setting ourselves up for failure taking everyone out to dinner and then to 2 souvenir shops (picked by the inviting jaws of a gigantic shark that lured Logan to them).  Surprisingly the evening went pretty well with no major meltdowns!  We wanted to eat at Moby Dicks because it has a pirate them inside with all kinds of cool pirate stuff that I thought Logan would enjoy, however they are apparently closed on Mondays.  We ended up at a seafood grill called Castaways and sat out on the patio.  We had an awesome dinner with which I enjoyed a tasty Alotta Colada out of a pineapple!!  I could go for another right now! 

I think everyone was too tired to misbehave!  Everyone just snacked, showered and watched some cartoons. 

 The worst part was taking an over tired Carter back to the hotel room.  We tried to put Nemo on the portable DVD player and lay in bed hoping that would help-wrong! Then we tried no Nemo and patting him-wrong.  Then we tried TV out and everyone quiet-wrong again.  We stayed that way for over an hour, rocking, patting, walking around and everything in between to get Carter to sleep, and finally after an hour he was out.  He wasn't sleeping very soundly so I adjusted the brightness on my phone and played around on fb.  The entire night he tossed and turned, at one point Logan came in our bed.  I think the only person in the hotel that got a decent night's sleep was Gwen, who had the bed Logan abandoned to herself!  The hotel had a really awesome continental breakfast the next morning.  After that we packed up the car, checked out, and drove down the beach on our way back to San Antonio.  I can't wait to go back next summer, when Carter is a little bit older and Logan a better swimmer.  I would also like to stay more than one night, so we can have another play day on the beach.  We opted not to go before we drove back home so everyone wouldn't get all sandy and yucky from the water and any more sun exposure.  We all came out pink despite our best efforts at putting on sun screen!