Day at the Beach!

The girls loved the beach soo much we decided to make a day of it.

Now Corpus Christi Beach isn't like the clear water you find in Florida or even South Padre Island, Texas, it's more of a muddy brown, but that's ok the girls found all sorts of cool things in the water.  Broken Sand Dollars, shells, and self-digging clams!  They would gather a handful of clams and just watch them dig into the sand.  They wanted to bring them back to the hotel with us. :)

Now for as long as I can remember the girls love the water.  They learned to swim in Columbia, SC, then we had a neighborhood swimming pool in Houston, and finally here, twice a week for family swim at Avon Middle School.  Here's some pics of the girls in the water.

After a bit of swimming and playing we ventured down the beach.  We saw a lot of people walking their dogs and of coarse they had to stop and pet each one!!  What can I say, they're animal lovers!  A little further down they wanted to try their hand at fishing...

just kidding!!!  A local fisherman had caught these and the girls wanted to hold them.  Nicole was a bit reluctant but Natalie felt right at home.  I love to see them smile!!  After their fishy experience we headed to sand...and lots of it!!

The next few pictures are of the girls buried in sand.  They like being covered all the way up. 

Here's some others pics of them in sand from a few years before in Clearwater Beach...

This was Nicole idea to make it look like a tombstone!  Silly girl! 

After a long day at the beach we went back to the hotel and relaxed until dinner.  They were pretty tired.  After we rested for a few hours we all went to dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Rockport, TX.  After dinner we brought left-overs back to the hotel and sat and watched Spongebob.