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Good times in Port Aransas. This was my little birthday weekend getaway. Much too short. That drive sure seems longer when pulling a vintage Airstream behind you. This was our first real bonafide roadtrip with the Airstream. For those of you who don’t know, I have a thing for classic Americana from the 50’s and 60’s. Cars, furniture and of course the old fashioned American vacation. The Park we stayed at was so much nicer than I even expected. It’s called Pioneer RV park on Mustang Island. There was only one other vintage trailer there, so I felt a bit out of place, but loved it. Most of the RV’s there are the full on buses with slide outs, probably in the 300k 500k range. I can’t believe what people have into RV’s. I loved the nostalgia of our little Airstream. Sort of the Harley Davidson of Travel Trailers. We had a great time on the beach. My daughter never wears out. We thought we finally cracked her toward the end of the day. She started to fall asleep on the bike. When we stopped riding, she laid down on the lounge chair and we though she was going to nod off. Seconds later, she popped up, at a hamburger and was right back in the water. We had a great time with my sister Steph and her family.I think we have found the second best burger on earth behind Crown and Anchor. It’s at a place called Fins by the Marina where most of the fishing tours take off. The second night we went to a great family owned German Restaurant called Marcel’s. Absolutely loved it.There’s something special about Port Aransas and that part of the Texas Coast. A lot of beach vacations can turn into a high end one upsmanship. This is a very down to earth, family sort of place to go. The kids don’t know the difference between staying at the Ritz Carlton or 40 bucks for a night in the park. In fact, I think most 5 year olds would prefer the park by the beach.Of course we had to hit all the cheesy beachside shops and let my daughter pick out a bunch of nautical crap. She got a habitat for a hermit crab she found on the beach. At some time between her finding the crab and us buying a home for the him, the crab packed up his shit and moved out of the shell.She still thinks he’s in there, but I don’t know how much longer that will last. We’ll see.

Well, I have procrastinated long enough. I am finally back in the gym and working out. You know how everyone says you can feel weight loss in your clothes? Well, I was feeling it, but my clothese weren’t getting looser, they were getting tighter. So I made a commitment and bought some personal training sessions at 24 Hour Fitness. It is kind of sad that I have to have a financial interest in my fitness, but that is the way God made me and there is nothing I can do about it. I am hoping that these sessions will help create a habit of working out. I do know that I have to do it after work. Once I get home, there is no way in hell I am going to go back to a gym. Plus, the gym isn’t so crowded during the day. I don’t really have a weight loss goal, I have a don’t skip a session that I have paid for goal. I have to be realistic and realistic to me is making it to the gym when I am supposed to be there. I would love to say that I am going on a strict diet, but I am not. Will I watch the portions that I eat yes. Thats all I have to say about that.

Sandy

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Having some fun messing around with the podcast thing. You can now get our podcast sent directly to itunes:

div style=”MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center”a href=”http://bp0.blogger.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/RvCYTGfOAvI/AAAAAAAABOE/SFEl60FEL3Y/s1600-h/CIMG0604.JPG”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_” alt=”" src=”http://bp0.blogger.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/RvCYTGfOAvI/AAAAAAAABOE/SFEl60FEL3Y/s160/CIMG0604.JPG” border=”0″ //a /divbr /div style=”MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center”a href=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/RvCYTWfOAwI/AAAAAAAABOM/mRmx7ulME8k/s1600-h/CIMG0611.JPG”img id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_” alt=”" src=”http://bp1.blogger.com/_dHmav2z1o1o/RvCYTWfOAwI/AAAAAAAABOM/mRmx7ulME8k/s160/CIMG0611.JPG” border=”0″ //a /divbr /My buddy Larry came up from Mason last weekend. we worked on cutting the roll cage out of his dads rare car. This is such a personal car it would be too hard to describe. We got a lot done in a short amount of time. the car is looking so much more original minuse the flarred side whell wells. His dad bought this car and new and it’s been used for noth but racing. It’s running great and a killer connection with my buddy larry and his dad that he lost. What a cool thing.div style=’clear:both; text-align:CENTER’a href=’http://picasa.google.com/blogger/’ target=’ext’img src=’http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif’ alt=’Posted by Picasa’ style=’border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;’ align=’middle’ border=’0′ //a/div

My buddy Larry came up from Mason last weekend. we worked on cutting the roll cage out of his dads rare car. This is such a personal car it would be too hard to describe. We got a lot done in a short amount of time. the car is looking so much more original minuse the flarred side whell wells. His dad bought this car and new and it’s been used for noth but racing. It’s running great and a killer connection with my buddy larry and his dad that he lost. What a cool thing.