We took our first family trip this last week in March, what with school break. Point Venture, TX is part second home retreat for Austin's wealthy, part draught-stricken sad lake front development on a downward spiral. Texas BBQ in Hill Country was close in proximity, but given our end of a cove location, was more than an hours drive each way.
There, we met Anne, Jamie and their two boys Zeek and Jonah. We were apprehensive about the journey and excited about the hang -- our third meeting in four years. All in all, the boys traveled pretty well. Nate whined his fair share but the iPad comforted. Mack ended up being a pretty good trooper, as long as he was in that Ergo. We doped him up with Benadryl too so he zonked out on the flight, which was miraculous and essential.
On vacations like these there is little rest. Complicated nap schedules prevent family outings and thus there is much playtime at the house. Kids get stir crazy when they're cooped up for too long. We ventured to the beach and the playground as best we could but the weather did not cooperate either. The boys got along well though and that made things easier.
Highlights include naked boys running around a beach, Mack puking all over my plate of BBQ from County Line, Mack sick with fever, Nate and I taking a dessert nature walk looking for cactuses, margaritta's and food at the Gnarly Gar, Jamie's cocktails, Shana's tex mex, Jonah's got back, boating docks sitting on dry land hundreds of yards from water, bunk beds, storytelling before bed leading to Zeke claiming he liked sausage flavored milk boxes, Egg hunting, Nate riding in the way back, balloons, freezing water at the pool, adult dinners on the patio...
