The Flood

This is Rick and his truck parked on the grass.


The dark trailer in the background contains our golf cart.



Our road turned into a river. We got 7.29 inches of rain Thursday night.

This is Dakota, Javiar, Carlie and the maker of the Obamamator sand belt racer. Carlie won this heat at the races at the Gaff last week.

William, Ken and Paul in Rockport after a delicious lunch at China 3.

Cutie Julia

Football and Food

Well, we have been up to running around with friends, visiting, laughing, eating interesting foods. Went to an excellent Chinese Buffet this week and last night went to a local place on the pier, Fins, that has family style fish and seafood. The shrimp was excellent, great nachos and fries and hush puppies. A good, peppery, cole slaw. Today we will have happy hour at Mavis's trailer. She has a large park model. She is so much fun. She playes Texas Hold 'Em poker with the big boys here.

Having lots of friends seems to be the key to happiness. And trying new things and being active too. We are enjoying our friends that come here every other year. Ken is retired military and retired teacher. Lyn had an organice garden business. Love them, there are so many nice people in the world.

It got down to 30 degrees this morning. It isn't supposed to be below freezing, being surrounded by water here. Oh well. Pretty windy, 25 mph, so no walk today. Tropical islands aren't supposed to be this cold.

We have been watching bowl games. Yesterday we walked into Bernie's and Mr. and Mrs. B had on their Texas sweat shirts. Paul pulled up his jacket and showed them his CMU shirt, they cheered! Everyone loved the game. What a good showing Central made. I am a long horns fan. Wore their hat on the trip north and a porter at the airport gave me the hand sign. Fun to flip it back. Football in TX is the other religion.

Thursday

I am all over my sinus infection thanks to Mexican antibiotics. It was a good weekend. Spend some time with friends and on the beach. On Tuesday we went with Ken and Lyn, with Mary Anna and William following in their truck, to Rockport. They found China 3, a very good buffet. It was better than the one in Corpus. Had great chicken wings and stuffed jalapenos, all the food was hot. Crab won tons were very good. As Paul says, we are done with Chinese for awhile. It was great, but now it is worn out.

Now the weather is changing, going to have 5 cold days, and 3 rainy days. Sun for the weekend.

Saturday in Port A

I have been down with a sinus infection this week, good to get out today. Top pic is kites on the beach, bottom is Ken, Lyn and William. We had so much fun this afternoon. It is cool here like the rest of the US, but we still walked on the beach. Not too bad.

Cupcakes

This is a blury pic of Steff inside the Toys R Us flagship store in Times Square. In the background is a ferris wheel. It was a real zoo in there. Kids were having a ball. Mark says they lose money there.

I forgot some food we ate!! First of all, Katie had wonderful biscotti from an Italian bakery, and some round, golden cookies that tasted like Annice and had pine nuts on top. We hadn't had biscotti before, it was great. And Steff bought cupcakes from Crumbs near Grand Central Station. They are larger than usual, and so good. One was red velvet, one was like a Hostess cupcake, only better, another was chocolate with white yummy stuff inside. The last was carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. So good, we cut them into pieces and had tastes of them all. I am thinking the only reason everyone in NY isn't fat is because they walk so much. How could they resist all the wonderful foods. The bagels, I am still eating the ones I bought on Tuesday morning. Still soft and tender, I could eat them like donuts, except I love cream cheese and peanut butter on them.