Brownsville in April

We had hoped to go down to Brownsville last weekend, but with the start of baseball we decided to postpone our trip. We did make it down and had a great time. The boys and I drove down on Friday morning, Turner wasn't thrilled with the ride, but he was so excited when we drove up to the house and he saw grandma sitting on the stairs. He was yelling and waving his arms to get out of his car seat. He really has taken to his grandma.

That afternoon along with grandma and grandpa we hit the beach out on South Padre Island. The weather was perfect, though a little windy. The boys had a great time. We haven't been to the beach to go swimming in ages.

Hayden has a fascination with seashells right now so he and grandma looked around for some. The pickings were kind of slim on the beach we were at. This is just me relaxing the surf watching my boys having the time of their life. It was such a great day and other than my sunburn life was great.

Hayden even let us burie him in the sand. He is playing dead in the picture below.

We found this huge hole someone else had dug and the boys thought it was great fun to get in and almost disappear.

It was an exhausting day. We ended up eating at Antonio's (uhm, my favorite) and fell into bed exhausted. All but Turner who was overly tired and couldn't get to sleep in a strange place no matter how much I walked him around.

On Saturday we head off the the flea market for some browsing. We bought a watermelon, a pineapple, some limes and a box of mangos to take back to San Antonio.

In the afternoon we picked up Ronaldo and headed over to the Glady's Porter Zoo. It is a pretty nice zoo and I have fond memories of going there as a kid myself. I was really impressed with their gorilla population, the chimpanzee population and the kangaroo population. They were all quite a bit bigger than I've seen at larger zoo's. The boys had a great time. Ronalo kept asking to see the horses and I had to explain they didn't have horses at the zoo. But I was wrong this zoo had a wild burro. We were saved. He really liked the zebra's also. The other thing he kept asking to see were the elephants and in this case he was out of luck there were no elephants. All three boys bot to feed the giraffe's. It was interesting to see the giraffe bend it's head to get the branches we had bought to feed them. And their purple tounge was really cool. But let me tell you they did not like being petted on ther heads at all. I wasn't thinking and left my camera in the car so we only got a couple of shots of the boys.

This is Ronaldo and Hayden.

Sunday morning before heading back to San Antonio we went out to Boca Chica beach and drove down to were the Rio Grande River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. This was kind of a fun experience because I had never been there before. It was interesting to think this little body of water was really all that was seperating Mexico from the United States and in all reality it was so shallow you could walk across. There were Mexican's across the river out fishing and enjoying the beautiful day just like the American's were doing maybe 100 yards away.

On Boca Chica we also found some really nice shells for Hayden to collect. They had some huge ones about the size of my hand. We stopped and got a small bag full and Hayden was thrilled.