A long weekend on the Texas coast - Day 3

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Port Aransas and Back to the Beach

In the morning, we headed north for the 20 minute drive to Port Aransas to see what that area looks like. On the drive up, we turned down a beach access road for a quick look at the beach. It was pretty empty, but a pretty beach, stretching on in both directions. There were a couple of cars, including a turtle patrol truck (looking for endangered sea turtles to protect).  Once in Port Aransas, we wandered around a huge souvenir shop and then walked around a dock a bit and looked at ducks and boats, then we were going to take a ferry, but on the way, we spotted a playscape that looked fun. We spent most of the rest of the morning at the playscape, letting Emmaline run around.



We had lunch in Port Aransas at a Mexican restaurant before we headed back to Corpus Christi where we stopped and picked up some coffee before getting Emmaline down for nap. During nap, Roger went for a run along the beach while I goofed around on the computer. After nap, I went running while Roger and Emmaline checked out the pool. The run was nice. I wasn't worried about time or distance or heart rate or intervals or anything like that. Instead, I just ran for awhile and explored the area and then ran back when I felt like I was done. I mostly ran along the road near our hotel, but I also ran down to the beach using beach access roads. Running in sand is really hard!

After my run, I met back up with Roger and Em at the pool and we all headed out to the beach. Emmaline was cold from being at the pool (it was about the same temperature as the ocean - brrrrr) and was having a hard time warming up. We spent a little time digging in the sand, but didn't go down to the water because she was already shivering.



After cleaning up, we went to a hamburger place and had a really yummy dinner. Mine was actually a portobello cap (Roger had a regular burger). Unfortunately, it was a little more bar-ish of a place than a regular restaurant and there were some annoying spring breakers there. It would probably be better for lunch. After getting Emmaline to sleep, we got everything packed for our departure the following morning.

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