We survived our first family vacation!

For our first day of vacation, Val stayed with Gigi, so Aaron and I went to Saledo. We stayed at the Stagecoach inn with this amazing mineral fed jacuzzi.

The town of Saledo is slowly dying, but this candy shop was in business!

Drinking some Joe at the Stagecoach coffee shop- really cool building.

Val at the Pink Place! We made it to Port Aransas!

First walk on the boardwalk!

The sound quality will be bad, but here is Vallie's first dip in the ocean!

Vallie loved "jumping over the waves," looking for sand dollars, and collecting seashells.

Vallie being crazy at Kody's. Not the best food in Port A- We preferred the pizza buffet!

First ferry ride for Scion and V!

It was hard to find the Surf Museum in the dirges of Corpus Christi, but it was worth it.

Vallie really dug these toys.

My favorite pic on the surfboard bench!

Required beach shark silliness.

Our Pink Palace

I thought it was really funny that the pool radio was still on at 7:00 in the am and it was playing November Rain while I was packing to leave in the rain.... Riding back was long and made us silly!

First Fireworks!

This was Vallie's first summer to go see the fireworks! I wish I could say she loved it, but I think it was a bit much for her. She kept pointing at them and saying, "No. No. No."

The day started out better because we watched Daddy drive his scooter in the parade. He got this crazy idea in his head about calling the scooter gang "The Stunt Bananas," so they wore bright yellow shirts.

Frenchy was everywhere that day trying to get on the Fresh Traveler's Show!

Mr. Dee-wayne the top banana!

Vallie enjoyed a dance at the coffee shop and wouldn't let go of her candy booty!