Weekend Getaway

My lack of writing about Valentines Day is not due to the lack of celebration, merely lack of time to blog. Our six-month mark for our anniversary falls two days after Valentines, so we have made it our tradition to avoid the crowds and go out on a nice date on Feb 16th instead.

This year Brad conveniently had to go to McAllen, TX for work on Friday, so I tagged along for a fun weekend getaway. Friday evening, we decided we wanted to go out for steak, so we thought we would try out Texas Roadhouse. Little did we know that all the senior citizens of Texas also wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse for dinner. At 5 PM there was huge line OUT THE DOOR of senior citizens waiting to go eat! (I wish I had taken a picture.) So we went to Outback instead. Where there were also senior citizens. I did not know McAllen has more retirement communities than Vegas has casinos. Go figure.

The next day we drove down to South Padre Island to enjoy the beach. And when we got there it looked like this

So instead of spending 3 hours on the beach and driving 6 hours home, we got a nice room at the Sheraton with an ocean view. Spontaneous? yes. A little pricey? maybe. The most romantic, lovely, fun, and relaxing weekend ever? You betcha!

Sweet Bridge to get on the island

Doesn't get too much better than this.

My sand castle! Also... I never take good pics on the beach.

Having fun in the sun

And just in case the weekend wasn't awesome enough already, on our way home we stumbled upon this gem:

That's right. Bobz world. It is so special that it deserves it's own post.