A long weekend on the Texas coast - Day 1

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Driving to Corpus Christi

The drive from Austin to North Padre Island in Corpus Christi is about 3.5 hours. The plan was to get Emmaline asleep for nap, wait until she had a little bit of nap, then move her gently into the car and take off with her sleeping for the first half of the journey. Unfortunately, she woke up when we moved her into the car and never went back to sleep. So we were headed for a nearly 4 hour car ride with a toddler that had abut 45 minute of nap. Sounds like a recipe for disaster but actually, she did really well.

For the first part of the journey, Roger drove and I sat in the back seat with Emmaline and we played. We had some toys that were brand new, just for the trip. We made a couple of stops for her to get out and run around. For one of them, we stopped in the middle of nowhere at a Wal-Mart and let her run through the toy aisle and try out some of the toys. They also had a little car ride thing out front and we pumped a couple of quarters into it.  For the last hour or so, Roger sat in back with her and I drove and we made it to our hotel around 6:30 PM (after leaving Austin around 2 PM).

After checking in, it was late and we didn't want to get back into the car so we went across the street to the Holiday Inn and had a pretty mediocre dinner at their restaurant (our hotel didn't have a restaurant). We also checked out the beach access (also across the street by the Holiday Inn). After dinner, we got Emmaline to sleep and settled into the hotel room. We were staying in a studio suite and it was a pretty nice little room with an (unexpected) ocean view.

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