Wonderful Weekend!

Here are a few pictures from my exciting weekend! Sorry they are in reverse chronological order, do your best to make sense. While my mom was in Arlington filling her mind with terrific sewing skills, my dad and I had a superb visitor – one of my best college friends, Rachel. Needless to say we packed everything we could into the weekend and had a blast doing it. I have been truly blessed with a wonderful family and great city, and terrific friends!

After mass we finished the day trip at Bob Hall Pier. The weather, water and company were perfect! We managed to drag ourselves home just in time to get showered to go out for a true Corpus Christi night on the town.
 

with my hermit crab! 

Baby shrimp. The real advantage of all the seaweed! 

enjoying the setting sun. 

Mass at St. Andrews. you can see Bishop Carmondy in the entry. We were surprised to find out it was Msgr. McGettrick's 50th anniversary celebration.
 

Playin' with sugar. Making a tube of flavors for someone special. The shriporee was great! lots of food (SHRIMP!), tons of crafts and snack type vendors, four tents - one with a chief, one with music, one with everything from belly dancers to ventriloquists, and i can't remember the fourth, and lots of port-a-potties:)
 

At the Shrimporee in Aransas pass. Take a look at the block of ice in the background. we saw a chief turn it into a dolphin with a chain saw!
 

on the ferry - the little girl next to Rachel was just loving being in the pictures:). 

Saturday was a FULL day. We left for the Athletic Club in the morning for a spin class and didn't make it home all day... but had a blast. This was taken on the ferry between Port Aransas and Aransas pass. We had a little detour to avoid this ship.
 

rachel and i in the outfield of the hooks game friday night. we had a great time chatting, munching and sippin' white wine. the hooks were not having as much fun with the 4-11 loss against the Tulsa Drillers - Oops!