Everything's bigger in Texas!

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We've been visiting Paul's family for almost two weeks, spending time with his grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins in Fort Worth, Texas. His mom even came down for a couple of days, and his brother for a couple of weeks. Mostly we just spent time hanging out and enjoying the weather.

We had to change our truck and camper tires, as the truck tires were pretty bald and the trailer tires were starting to tear up a bit. The new ones have a 60,000 mile warranty, so they'll definitely last us the rest of the trip!!

One of our mini adventures was simply a dinner at Wing Stop, where Paul dared his brother Brandon to eat 3 hot wings spiced with habanero peppers. Well, Brandon was $20 richer, but his mouth wasn't too happy!

On the weekend we all went down to Galveston on the Gulf and relaxed, playing in the water and avoiding the noon humid heat. The sea here was 82 degrees! It was a great time altogether, especially when Paul, Brandon, his uncle and cousins went deep sea fishing on the last day. They caught a lot of red snapper, and got to bring home 2 each. Pictures from the boat should be up within a week or so, as soon as Brandon sends them over...he brought his camera on the boat.

We didn't bring the camera on the beach, so there aren't any pictures...but I'm sure you can imagine the view: Waves lapping up on the sandy beach on this Texas island, where the state park campground sits right on the water's edge. Crabs nip at your toes in the water and the seagulls keep an eager eye open for the fisherman's catches. What an awesome relaxing (and sunburning) weekend! 😊

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Comments

[MICHELLE SMALL]

Down in my world
hey! yall should have called.. im like 3 hours from Galvaston.

[Danielle and Paul]

D'oh!
We should have...we looked at each other and did the..."hey, where in texas is michelle?" sorry it took us posting the ad to find out...you'll have to come up to visit us on vacation with chad when we're settled in seattle and he gets back from iraq!

[Linda]

Fun!!!
Wow! It looks like a lot of fun guys!! I hope all is well. Drive safe! Love, Linda

[Mom]

Oh to see ya'all
I loved seeing you both but the Galveston trip made your Granny so happy, Just to be with all of you ! She was in Pure Heaven. Brandon did come home with the worst sunburn I have ever seen him have, I could feel his pain. See you soon...........................Love mom