A long weekend on the Texas coast - Day 4

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Texas State Aquarium and the Drive Home

Emmaline generally gets up around 7 AM which is good and bad. It's good in the sense that we can get all kinds of things done in the morning. But, it's a bummer that we basically don't get to sleep in. Ah well. We got up, finished packing, checked out and headed into Corpus Christi for breakfast. We ate at a little country kitchen type place. We both enjoyed some eggs with all the fixins while Emmaline pointed at the toy trains that ran around the entire perimeter or the restaurant above our heads. Each time one came out, she pointed and signed train. It was fabulous toddler entertainment!

After breakfast, we went to the Texas State Aquarium. We saw all sort of fish, turtles, river otters and some dolphins. Emmaline wasn't quite as into it as we thought she would be. She's generally really into fish, but I think some of them were a little big for her. They did have a really nice, large playground there and we took her there a couple of different times during the course of our visit.



We left the aquarium and headed to a really cute little cafe for lunch. The food was absolutely delicious and we enjoyed it very much. If we ever go back, I definitely want to go back to that restaurant for lunch. After lunch, we got Emmaline settled into the car seat for the drive back. She fell asleep after about 40 minutes and didn't wake up until we were about 30 minutes from home. It was a much faster drive being able to drive straight through!

All in all, we had a really nice time. Since it wasn't a super expensive vacation and it's really not too bad of a drive, we're talking about making it a somewhat regular beach getaway!

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