It's our second Valentine's Day in Texas. I promised Gil his present would be my agreeing to go to the RV show in Robstown tomorrow. This is a big gift considering that it's been rainy and cold for 10 days and today and for the days ahead it's going to be in the 70's and 80's! Oh well, we're just looking. Isn't that how we got our last dog? Stay tuned.
Tuesday was our first studio dance lesson, which proved to be challenging because in the North you do the two-step with 'slow, slow, quick, quick' and in Texas it's 'quick, quick, slow slow'. Fortunately, we learned some really good things and didn't fall all over each other.
One day, we headed down to Rockport for lunch at the Poor Man's Country Club. This place is a bar right on the bay, which has the absolute best BLT I've ever had...I've become totally addicted to this BLT! The beer of choice is the Texas Lone Star with the armadillo on the can. We've yet to see a real one....armadillo that is.
We also went to the Rockport Science Museum on the bay the same day. I mentioned this place last year. It's free and they have 'science on a sphere' (SOS). It's pretty amazing and one of 30 in the U.S. Photos from satellites in space are projected to 4 cameras surrounding the white sphere. Nothing is enhanced and the sphere weighs about 50 pounds, is made of carbon fiber and hangs from the ceiling. The topic this week was planets of the solar system. Pretty fascinating --- and did you know poor Pluto is no longer a planet? Many of us were led to believe Pluto was one of the planets when we were in school. Now he's been voted off the island!
We meandered over to Flour Bluff where we found the craziest paint schemes for houses. Carefully look at the photos, and note that the adjacent house next door has two colors of paint. The side closest to the first house is painted the color of the first house. It's totally wacky and most colorful.
Honestly, it's been a little hard for me to blog this year because while we are having a fabulous time, the surprise of new things has somewhat vanished. We feel like we're pretty familiar with life around Port Aransas and Corpus Christi so I guess it's a good news- bad news conundrum. It will still be a fun memory for us to read when we are in our rocking chairs and too old to walk the beach. Did I mention that we had last years blog printed into a book and plan to do the same this year. It's a great keepsake for treasured travel memories.
I'm not sure how old that would be since today we met a delightful couple in their late 80's who were walking the beach and traveling as companions. They'd each lost their spouses about 20 years ago, were best friends as couples for 55+ years. They raised their kids together and vacationed on a lake near Brandson, MO.in the summers. They are having a ball as travel companions and enjoying walking the beach. She cooks one night and he cooks the next. Way too cute....amazing stories from the beach with some of the nicest people we've ever met.
This week we also watched a little dog named Camero for our friends' daughter. They went to San Antonio to meet their kids and grands arriving from Minnesota.
Also, on our pond, there are several duck decoys (we don't know why there are decoys). In the photo below, one is a decoy but one little duck is so in love with the decoy, it hangs out by it all day long. Maybe it's missing his mom or thinks it's the love of his life.
Last night we went to a free concert in the clubhouse at the RV park. A guy named Bo Rivers was playing his guitar and wow...he could sound just like Willy Nelson and then switch to Roy Orbison and bellowed out, Pretty Woman, like you've never heard! We liked him so much, we've decided to celebrate Valentine's Day dinner on Saturday night at Virginia's on the Bay where he will once again perform.
It was so fun to receive our mail and magazines this week (thanks Kim!) and found a Valentine puzzle from Xochitl along with some fun little Valentine's. You can tell love is in the air on the island....especially since the rain, cold and wind have disappeared. The moon is full, the air warm and the breezes gentle....perfect. So we send our love to each of you from Texas. We wish you a love-filled day filled with lots of chocolate and warm temperatures!
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