A Long Awaited Visit...

Erik is back in Houston. We had a good time visiting. It was much needed I think...for us all. Naturally, we ate too much and got little exercise...playing games, cards, etc. Of course both of the guys used me as a "dummy hand". In other words, they cheat. lol [just kidding]. But, all the games we DID play, I don't think I won one. Gin Rummy, Hearts, Uno [a newer version, which is quite different than the old version], and Quadruple Scrabble [instead of triple word score there are four squares of quadruple word score] - a larger playing board and a longer game. This shown above is Erik's tiles at one point; he persevered tho and didn't exchange them.  Of course, Bud won that. I didn't make the pumpkin pie for him as I planned. He told us about a place in Houston that has blackberry cobbler 'to die for' delicious. His words exactly "freaking delicious". So, I opted to make him a cobbler with blackberries instead. Personally, I'd much rather have made a pie, but the guys loved the cobbler!!  I made brownie points with both.

One morning, after sitting at the table playing Uno most of the day the day before, I got up from a night's sleep and felt I just HAD to get outdoors and walk.  It was cloudy, had sprinkled before sunrise.  But, Erik and I went out anyway.  The weather didn't cooperate much while we walked the seawall area.  We had planned on walking at the island jetty but that was nixed since a tragedy had occurred overnight -I was awakened around 11 pm to the sound of helicopters and planes flying low over our house.  I knew it had to be Coast Guard at that hour!!...two teen brothers were caught in a rip current in the Gulf.  One was rescued, the other older brother's body was found two days later, drowned.  The area where we planned to walk was cordoned off for a body search at the time.  I can't help but feel the pain the parents/family are going through this whole time.  Sad.  People just don't realize how dangerous rip currents are.  You just can't get out of them for the panic mode most fall into when they find out they're trapped.  

Anyway, at the seawall, it was misting the whole time.  Otherwise, it still felt good to get away from sitting all day long.  I took only my cellphone with me once again so not to ruin my good camera with rain.  There were a few oddballs die-hards out walking with us at that time, but not many.

Palm Tree-lined walkway toward the direction of the Port of Corpus Christi Channel and the Culture Center

The tanker is enshrouded with mist. The two herons kept a vigil on us as we walked past them. The one photo with the traffic light & Federal Court House is where Interstate 37 begins on the map...

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