Well, for the curious, here’s where we’ll be next this weekend:

SEASCAPE CONDOS – Galveston, TX

We’ve got a nice unit that has a “beach theme” and a “gulf view.” The kids will be happy to know it has “2 TV’s” and a “VCR” so that means we can watch Harry Potter or Monsters and Ink just like home. Dad is glad it has a king size bed, plus bunk beds, plus sleeper sofas – sleeps 8. So there’s plenty of room for nap-time.

There’s a pool for the non-salty-water experience, it’s about ten miles from most of Galveston so it’s semi-quiet but still easy to obtain supplies. Important to us: it is literally on the beach, we don’t have to ride in the car to go play in the sand.

We will make it a point to ride the boat while we are there (a kid favorite but something my daughter has yet to experience). Actually, there are probably 2,000 touristy things that we have never done in the twenty years we have been visiting this island together, maybe we’ll knock a couple off the list. I want to see the railroad museum but I’m not sure my wife is geeky enough for that. There is also a flight museum near where we are staying but I’m not sure I have enough money left in the budget for that biplane airplane ride I’ve been wanting to take over the island. We’re only there for two days and a morning so I doubt we’ll be doing much other than sun and sand and surf.

We’re packing plenty of chips and popcorn and sunscreen and shovels and the camera (gotta get some more doggie pics for Genuine) and an umbrella and the stroller and beer. And I’m sure a bunch of other stuff I haven’t even thought of yet.