Same Beach, Bigger Puppy

The weather has been nice here in Texas for quite awhile.  I am not the only one who has been excited about this. For instance, the mere sight of sunscreen makes Norman so excited that we can't even get an un-blurry picture of him running through the house with it in his mouth.

We did get lots of un-blurry pictures of him at the beach later that day, though.

It has been awhile since Norman's last (photo documented) trip to the beach. Just look!

Yay beach summer!

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A Day at the Beach

Over Spring Break weekend, we decided to take a little trip down to Galveston for some beach fun.

It was Norman's first time at the beach and he was not too sure about waves at first.

He eventually loosened up a little and had a great time.

As you can see, Norman was pretty tuckered out by the time we headed home.

Here's to long weekends!

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Bike (Half Way) Around the Bay

Just after Japan, we rode in another 150 mile bike ride--Bike Around the Bay.  Well, sort of.  You see, the first day was glorious.  We got there early and lined up with our bike.

Then Dave and Dana joined us! Here's a picture of their butts.

Dave is the shark butt.  Dana is #147.  The route was breathtaking. It took us right by the ocean. Well, it was the Gulf. But it had waves like the ocean and it smelled all ocean-y and there were palm trees. But it was brown like the Gulf. Harumph! When we got close to Galveston, we got to take a ferry ride over to the island.

There were tons of dolphins out that day jumping and following along with the boat. It was amazing! When we got to the hotel, there was a swim up bar.

That night we dined with DP^2.

Ah, day 1. The next day was a different story. I woke up super sick, tropical storms rolled in and long story short, we didn't ride the entire route home. Instead, we rode across the causeway in the morning--they close down two lanes to let all of the bikers across. Then we wussed out. We weathered part of the thunder storms at the lunch site where we helped out the volunteers a bit.

Then we went home, camped out on our couch and watched the first real Houston rain in about a million months roll in. Were we proud of ourselves? No, not particularly. Were we cozy and dry. Well, yeah, actually we were.

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Pool, Beach, Pool

The Cobbs came to visit us in Houston this past weekend (yay!). When we picked them up from the airport and asked them what they wanted to do, they said, "Pool!"

So that's just what we did:

The next day, we headed down to Galveston to shop at tourist traps and have lunch at a biker bar:

What did we do when we got back? Go to the pool, of course! We had a lot of fun and were sad to see them go.

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