Thursday, June 3, 2010

Port Aransas

We just got back from a blissful, week-long vacation in Port Aransas. (PA is an island of off Corpus Christi, Texas). We went with Jon's family and had a wonderful time swimming, building sandcastles, riding waverunners, playing golf, and visiting the aquarium.
Jon & Jack gazing at the Gulftoo cute...Jack really enjoyed throwing the sand tools into the tide and trying to catch them as they washed on and off shore.JAWS...that's Jack and Jon inside there. Many of the area's shops had these huge sharks out front to attract easily impressed tourists such as ourselves!Us at the TX state aquarium, in case you couldn't read the picture. Pretty cool entrance- you walk through the waterfall arches.
Dolphins JUMP!
Fun video of dolphin tricks.
Stingray-they let you "pet" them there. I didn't try it because I'm a wimp like that, but I was told they feel like jelly, all mushy....
Sorry for the blurry picture, I just liked how the seahorses clung to the coral.
Creeepy shark. I love how this picture came out so dark with the shark's eye glowing at you. How'd you like to swim by that in the ocean?

Underground viewing area of the dolphin tank. It was so pretty with the glowing blue water reflecting in the room. Dolphins are so cool, I really want to swim with them some time.

Last, but best--video of Jack starting to swim. He is my water baby...love it. I love how he just jumps out in the water and floats, and he doesn't care about going under. The only problem is you have to watch him because he WILL jump or push off of you and just try to swim out in the open.

3 comments:

Amy Brinton said...

Wow, Erin! That's a good idea to hold him by his swim shirt so that he can be more independent. I can't believe that he's only two and swimming like that! Way to go!

Kristi said...

Um... it's about time there was a blog update. Looks like Jack will be a swimmer! Thats right.

Krista and Paul said...

Erin, Jack's super cute! That aquarium looked amazing. But seriously, you were too chicken to touch the sting ray? I always thought you were tougher than that! maybe the eye black in flag football was just a deception. . .