South Padre Island...part 6...Sea Life Center

The same day we did the Sea turtle rescue it rained a little that morning so we decided to go across the bridge to Port Isabel where they have the Sea Life center(which is next to Pirate landing where the pirate ship is). This place had various sea life. They did not have the sea turtles. Hailey discovered "helping" mommy take pictures at this place cause it kept her next to me. This is partly my fault since the day before we went to the end of the island and found a beach that had huge unbroken shells in the water. I will do a post of just Hailey pictures that she "took" and add the picture of the shells too. The Sea Life center is in Pirate's Landing which consists of the Pirate's landing resturant, The pirate ship cruise and the fishing pier. When you pull into this parking lot you do not think its much of anything, but there is a lot there. They have a HUGE pier and there are so many people fishing off of it. We are not even close to attempting fishing with Hailey. I am now wishing that I would have paid more attention when my dad and grandpop were trying to teach me to cast my line out instead of just dropping it over the boat. I do not know if Hailey would ever be able to do fishing, she cannot sit still, I am hoping it is just her age and not her personality. Only time will tell........


Parrots outside at the Pirate's landing........she saw the birds and there are Pirate statue type things where you can put your face in, or stand next to them.....she kept saying to the birds "polly want a cracker"

sea life center....Blue crab...the second time we came by this guy he had his claws raised up, like dont mess with me!

this is a frog fish (i think) he was weird looking

.....sea horse...in case you did not know...hehehe

this is a picture of some turtles they had there. It was us and another family there. The little boy from the other family fed the turtle, then the guy let Hailey (with Glenne's help) feed the turtle and that is what this is a picture of...if you look at the top right you see their 2 hands holding the scissors with the shrimp on the end.

this is a HUGE hermit crab eating shrimp the guy just fed him.

this was a lobster he had big antena....he was not a regular lobster..spider lobster??

http://www.spinaturecenter.com/

South Padre Island...part 5....Sea Turtle rescue

They have a Sea Turtle Rescue on the the island. Its a great little place that has been there for a long time. They work very had at making sure that the sea turtles do not get caught and killed by poachers and make sure any new eggs laid stay safe. We missed it but while we were on the island they had some sea turtles that hatched that they were releasing the following morning after our visit. I just did not think that it would be something Hailey would have behaved at. Glenne forgot about it too. The turtles that they were releasing were in south padre were Kemps Ridley which are from texas/mexico area.

Here is a link to the Sea Turtle Rescue and the different sea turtles they have there. http://www.seaturtleinc.org/turtles.html

Looking at the baby sea turtles.

It was all out in the open and it was a hot day(odd being in south texas huh...LOL)

Daddy and Hailey checking out one of the different sea turtles. They had various species I just cannot remember the different names.

Poking his head up for a Hello!

Feeding "Crush" from Nemo. (We put the lettuce up to the glass , he would open his mouth to try to eat it then the rescue guy would throw it over for him to eat.) He would come right up to the window to try to eat the lettuce.

another sea turtle....

and some more baby sea turtles......

South Padre Island...part 4...the many faces of hailey

Hailey is really into making faces and we got lots of different faces while away. I thought this would be a fun post.

doing her pirate...."aaarrrrr"
not sure...but its silly

big cheese

daddy and Hailey

mommy and hailey

trying on a hamburger hat in a store

relaxing after a shower (after the day at the beach) we did not pose her

making a silly face

South Padre Island...part 3...flying a kite

We bought a kite and Hailey was ssssooooo excited to fly this kite. Once Glenne got it up in the Air she was amazed. We did have to try to get her to understand that she had to hold the handle a certain way,etc.

Standing next to me flying the kite
close up

far away....kite and Hailey

kite in the sky...........

South Padre Island ...part 2..surfing

We did not plan on boogie boards. We thought Hailey was too young. For a day or so we saw these boogie boards in the garage where we parked for our "house" (as Hailey called it). Glenne finally decided he was just taking them obviously someone left them...there were 3, one was broken. We got 2 boogie boards and 2 noodles. Glenne introduced "surfing" to Hailey while we were there with the new boards. She was a little unsure but quickly LOVED it. Here are various pics.


this pic is of her coming back from "surfing"..this was like the 3rd day her and Glenne surfed. I love the look of accomplishment on her face. I will be cursing myself years from now when I have a surfer girl...but I love that she loves the beach and the ocean.
surfing.......small waves

more surfing.............................

and more...............................

does she not look like a pro practicing?? Glenne was not coaching her...I was far away taking this pic and he did not know about the camera.

Trying to surf in the pond area left by the high tide...all by herself

surfing in the pond with daddy pulling her

Daddy took her out past the first sandbar to surf..she had her arm swimmies on.

more surfing..Daddy in the back (maybe going for a ride???)

South Padre Island.....part 1.....

Ok....I just uploaded all of the pics from one camera and it was over 300...still got the ones from the cell and some from the other camera.......the vacation blogs will be in several posts. I have to get ready for 2 fantasy football drafts...blog updates....work...normal family life....recover and finish unpacking from vacation (man you sure take a lot of crap when you have a kid!!!). I also need to prepare for Hailey and I going to Philly (just us girls..yikes!!!) for the labor day weekend..fri to tue am. Ok...done with my little rant here.....one more thing to add...the card reader for the cell phone card and the one camera is missing.....so we are figuring out how to upload those.

Here are some various pics from the first day....We left Houston around 12ish sat am/fri night. We wanted to try to have at least part of our trip without non stop talking from Hailey. She went to bed and we finished packing up. When we were ready to leave we got her out of bed and laid her in her car seat and went on our way. Unfortunately.....I woke up with a virus wed before our vacation and lost my voice....so our trip was going well (except for me not being able to sleep) when I started coughing my head off (glenne says it was him stopping to get me tea) about 345am and could not stop with the liquid I had in the car. Luckily we were in a "civilized" area and saw a Denny's off the highway. Glenne stopped and got me some tea with lemon and honey. As soon as he stopped she woke up.....we kept telling her it was too early and she needed to sleep or just not talk. Amazingly...she fell for this and was quiet till we got to South Padre Island and we got her out to see the sunset.

The pictures are out of order....sorry.


The view from our balcony

the view from our doorway into our home for the week

our bathroom

Our bedroom...its a queen..the matress was very soft. We missed our bed(king..not so soft!)

Hailey's bedroom....after we rearranged it so that she did not roll out of the bed when sleeping.

The kitchen...dining area

The living room area....

Here are the sunset pictures....We got to the island around 630am. We parked next to our place and there was a beach access right there. We parked and got out to wait for the sun to rise. It took all we had to not let Hailey run in the sand. We could not check in for quite a few hours and did not want to deal with sandy toddler.

Sun breaking thru and finally coming up....

One of the crabs that comes out at night....he must have been a stradler and was finding a way underground when we were waiting for the sunrise.

early sunrise............................

No sun yet.....trying to explain to a TODDLER that the sun will come up over where it is dark...hahahahha ( a toddler that has been up since 345am..but slept for about 45 min at some point in there)

There is more to come.......She did say....wwwwoooowww....when she realized that the sky was getting lighter. She kept seeing a few people on the beach..fishing or watching the sunrise and she noticed that more then the actual sunrise. I hate to say she gets that from me, I am always seeing the little things going on. uuuggghhh!!!

Back from Vacation!!!

We are back from vacation.....It was such a fun week. We took soo many pictures. I have to upload them and write about our vacation. We did not have any free interent access and did not feel it was necessary to pay for access since we were on vacation. I actually read a book a little too!!!

Look for more postings soon......till then....enjoy the summer,what is left of it!!