The Vacation Where No One Died

We have been planning for at least a year or two, to go on a beach vacation with our friends the Valdez's.  It finally came to fruition this week!  We dubbed it the Mondez Beach Vaca of 2014 and it was awesome! Early Monday morning, we headed south and were sinking our toes into the sand by 11:30.  We spent two full days on the beach.  I am so very thankful to say that no one was stung by a jellyfish, no one was eaten by a shark and no one drowned.  (Good grief, the beach is a dangerous place!)  We soaked up a years worth of Vitamin D, laughed a whole lot, relaxed in the sun, and ate ice cream twice!  Hopefully we can make a Mondez Vaca a yearly thing!

Mustang Island...$5 per adult and kids are free and well worth the money.  There are no cars allowed on the beach, there are covered picnic tables, it's not crowded, there are giant changing room porta-potties that aren't disgusting and there are two rinse off showers!

Finally made it!!!!

Elle in the Ocean (I like this picture :)

This picture makes me laugh because I'm attempting to ride the "waves" which were minuscule.

Our buddies showed up and the fun level got turned up 100 notches!

Time to prepare some lunch

After getting cleaned up, the kids played some games for a while.  It was nice to have rooms that adjoined.  The kids loved knocking on the other door and immediately having friends on the other side.

That night we ate at Fin's and it was nice food and good weather for sitting outdoors.

After getting back to the hotel, we headed to the game room with the kids and let them play ping pong and Foosball while we played Phase 10.

The next morning after breakfast it was back to the beach to conquer all the things we didn't do the day before.  We spotted these odd jellyfish floating in the water.  We didn't see too many more of these thank goodness even though I have no idea if they sting.  

Shawn and Izzy made Valerie and I some sand seats.  

After the beach, we headed back into town for pizza and the traditional photo in the shark's mouth.

Then we headed to one of the public beaches for family photos.

The official Mondez Vaca Photo!

Friends for Life!

We had ice cream after that at a fun little place in town and took some funny pictures too.

Then we headed back to our hotel and all crashed to watch some good ol' Full House.  It was over at 9pm and all the adults were exhausted, but the kids were ready for another night of games.  So, we dragged ourselves up off the beds and headed back down to the game room.

Wednesday morning we woke up and ate breakfast and then headed out.  We all decided to ride the very short ferry ride and the kids loved it.  We got to watch dolphins swimming!  

What an awesome vacation.  We can't wait to see where the next one will be!