24 Hours with No Responsibility

How easily we forgot how life was like not having to worry about the baby, homework, housework, and work work. Ramon and I just got away for 24 hours, which doesn’t sound like a long time, but it was amazing. We dropped Ashlyn off at my mom’s house on a Friday night and headed to Galveston. We ate at a delicious seafood dinner on Friday night then went back to our hotel. We stayed at the La Quinta on the Seawall. We could see the Gulf from our balcony. Here’s a picture from our balcony:

We spent several hours Saturday morning walking along the strand, going to the fun little shops and eating some awesome ice cream from the old fashioned ice cream and candy store. We actually got a little bit of Christmas shopping done also (I like start early). We had seafood for lunch at a restaurant on the strand right on the water. I got pooped on the shoulder by a seagull while we were eating so that wasn’t exactly the highlight of the trip, but it was pretty funny.

After lunch we went back to our hotel to change and headed to the beach. Going to the beach was super fun. Ramon and I swam in the ocean, except there was a lot of seaweed, so I was totally freaked out by that every time it hit my legs. Once we got out into deeper water the seaweed was gone. Then we just laid on the beach for a while so soak up some vitamin D and Ramon read a book.

After the beach, we went back to our hotel to get cleaned up and I taught Ramon how to play Solitaire. He doesn’t really know a single card game but he wants to learn. It was also pretty amusing teaching Ramon how to shuffle!  Once we got back home it was great to see our little girl again and relax. It was the perfect little getaway.