corpus christi – keepingupwiththebrunnemanns

This summer we took the girls on a surprise trip to the beach!

We made a plan to go to the beach on Wed, go check into the hotel and shower and then go to dinner. Then for Thursday, go to the Texas State Aquarium, eat at the two story Whataburger and then go home… Surprisingly, things pretty much went as planned, with a few little extras 😉

I booked our hotel at North Beach (which I wouldn’t recommend at all, thank God it was only for one night) with intentions of swimming there, but when we got into town we quickly decided to keep going. I had no idea that it was so small and wanted the girls to have the full beach experience, afterall, we’ve never done this before!

SO, we crossed the waters on the fairie to Port A!

We arrived at the beach kinda late afternoon, so we were only there for a few hours, but it was so beautiful and peaceful, and the girls had a wonderful time.

Heading out! They had no idea where we were going 🙂

Posing on the beach!

The little sand castle we made… It didn’t hold their attention for too long haha

We decided to walk up and down the beach to look for things to take home.

Our beach toes! I took them the day before to get our toes and and hands painted 🙂

Then we found a shark on the shore! ;p

And jellyfish!

This is actually the second one we found, the first one was in Gwen’s pail (picture of that below)

Skimming the sand for sand dollars

Gwen with her jellyfish!

All the things they collected off the shore

❤

On the fairie, heading to the hotel to shower before dinner

Gwen always falls asleep in the car 🙂

After checking in and taking showers to get all the sand off, we went to dinner at Blackbeards

He had no idea that Cambria made this same face haha

After dinner we decided to go for a walk along the water, and ran into this ice cream shop 🙂

Then the girls were really dirty, so we had them take showers again lol

Then it was for some rest before the next big day 🙂

After we checked out of our hotel, they just HAD to pose in this shark (I MIGHT be a little bit obsessed with them) before our next surprise destination

The Texas State Aquarium!

First thing we did was watch the dolphin show

Otters and then indoor aquariums

Then they got to feed the stingrays!

It took Cambria feeding four of them before Gwen finally decided to do the last two

(This is the only picture I have of this because I was filming it :\)

The stingrays were the biggest hit, so that’s what they picked from the gift shop 😀

And it’s time to leave!

After the aquarium, we went and had a late lunch/dinner at Landry’s. So good!

No pictures of that, but while we were walking down the dock to go there, we noticed a sign for boat rides! I’ve only been on a boat once, and the girls never, so we went for it!