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our last weekend on the island

It's coming to and end, our time here down on Galveston Island.  We had such a wonderful time being with family and being in the warm climate.  Erin was the only one who was able to head here for a few days, so on Saturday we headed down to The Strand, where we window shopped, ate lunch and just walked around enjoying the day.

Since this was our last weekend here and probably the only time to see all the family together before we head back home, we headed into Houston to our son and dil's home where our son made a wonderful BBQ smoked brisket on his smoker grill.

Here's all of our Texas family, the three girls and our son and dil and their 2 girls.  Jim and I both were taking this photo, so they were all looking at him :)

It's not easy saying good-bye, but it's not really good-bye because we plan to come back down here again.

the pioneer woman's pico de gallo

I love watching The Pioneer Woman on the Food Network, and one of the dishes she made was     Pico de Gallo.  So, I just had to make it.

YUM!!!

So, last night we sat back with our feet up, ate some pico de gallo, and watched the Hockey All-Star Skills Competition.

Go SuperKaner (Patrick Kane) and Hossa!  Being a Chicago Blackhawk fan, I had to say that.

a quick walk through a rainforest

We had a few minutes to kill before going to see "Rescue" at the IMax theater at the Moody Gardens.

taking a boat ride to see the dolphins

We took a boat ride when my sister was here to see the dolphins.

We did see a few active ones, but they're too quick to catch them out of the water.

A few shots of one of my favorite birds from the south.

A few more interesting things we saw.  It cracked me up to see how all the birds looked like they were standing at attention.

This big guy is called Texas Responder and is for oil spills.

It was a wonderful day out on the water.

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