Father’s Day Weekend — Rain Forest Cafe’ Jungle Water Ride
Last Saturday was the usual work-day for Nico. But for me and Baby? It was Mother & Daughter fun in the sun day! We spent all day, from around 10 a.m. ’til around 6 p.m., walking the Seawall (stinky seaweed and all), enjoying snow-cones and food truck Mexican food (was quite good!) along the shores of our new hometown — Galveston Island.
Then, when I was feeling quite heated and not so great, we ducked down to the beach and stayed ’til it was almost time for Hubby to get off work. Baby met some new little friends from Ethiopia, who were visiting family in Houston. The nice lady I talked with–the mother of Nixi’s playmate–was enjoying her trip to G-Town from her home in Washington D.C. It was nice talking with her, and even better than that…Baby had someone to play with; since she’d been quite cranky for most of the day. I think boredom sometimes gets the best of us all.
So we waded through the seaweed, attempting to enjoy the cool waters of the Gulf. I have to admit, even though seaweed is great for the garden, it’s not so fun to feel brushing up all over you. It’s a bit of a creep-out factor. : / Needless to say, we’d had a very full day by the time we got home and Nico arrived. But…we weren’t done yet!
Being-as it was Father’s Day weekend, we decided to shower (which actually did wake me up), and head out to eat at a local place on the seawall that I had been wanting to try….for years! Tortuga’s Mexican Kitchen, dining beneath the palm thatched palapas…seeing the goings-on (crazy…at best) along the seawall, the margarita (no doubt) was a very enjoyable experience. The service was very friendly, the food oh-so-tasty, and the cool ocean breeze and ‘entertainment’ (episodes of honking horns and road rage on Seawall Blvd, and drunk tourists on trolley bikes) was just what I needed to end a very packed day.
Still, we didn’t head for home. Instead, Nico wanted to take Baby to Rainforest Cafe’…just a short distance down Seawall; so off we went to the place we’d been when Baby was too young to even remember. Nico wanted to buy her a little toy, since the last time we’d passed by there, Baby had spotted the toy carney, and threw a great fit when we didn’t stop to win her one. What she didn’t know, and couldn’t understand at her age, is that we had no money…at all. That was why we had opted to go for a stroll along the ocean, just to break the monotony of being broke in a town with so much (things that cost….more than we had) to do.
Either way, Daddy made it up to Baby…and then some. We even got to go on the Rainforest Jungle Water Ride (not sure if that’s the correct name for it?), which was so much fun! We want to go again…as soon as we possibly can. All in all, staying home for vacation isn’t so bad after all. And, when the fun is all done, we can come home to our cozy little caravan abode.
Blessings to All, that you have a wonderful vacation…or staycation this year; wherever you may be.
.V..
GVR
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