Wednesday Sept 28, 2005

Wed Sept 28th= We spent the afternoon on the beach in South Padre Island, Texas. This was our favorite beach so far. Again, we felt like it was our own private beach. This town in packed with college kids during spring break--i'm so glad that we were there during their "off season". After baking on the beach for an hour or --Laura wanted to walk up to one of the hotels (a very nice Radisson) and "borrow the use of their swimming pool". I was wearing my brand new swimming bottows (loved the fact when i purchased them-that they had pockets)!! well i totally forgot that i had our car keys in the pocket and jumped into the pool!! I've been told that if i don't push any of the remote clicker buttons and let it totally dry out that it might work. We'll see-i took off the car key-and keep the clicker on the dash to dry out- so i wouldn't be tempted to push the "unlock".

Laura told me today so distubing news. "i'm going to let my hair grow". I thought she just meant the hair on her head but NO she is including her legs and armpits. Not so much a fan of that. We had our 2nd shower at the holiday inn rinse off station --the Italian ladies (guests of the hotel) sitting by the pool -sure gave us some funny looks.

Decided we needed to at least get 1/2 way to Big Bend National Park. (probably a 10 hr drive) so we took off on the open road. We were called by the "Wild Blue BBQ" for a late lunch. We struck up a conversation with the owners-2 hispanic brothers (Abraham and Manny). I mean brothers as in related -not slang for black. Well speaking of not politcally correct...laura asked Abraham (the chef) "so what made you decide on this type of food"---meaning "why come you're not selling mexican food"--i was dying. then she asked Manny---"is that your car out there" he said "yes"--she asked "do you work on it yourself"---meaning "it was a small honda civic -and she assumed that he likes the "pimp my ride" look... he just answered with a confused look "what do you mean"? oy!-- We enjoyed the BBQ and the rest of our conversation with the boys and headed to Kerrville, TX. The walmart parking lot was our home for the night. We were asleep for about 1/2 hour when i heard a car pull up next to us. We were parked well away from all the other cars--by the lawn and garden dept...you know no one goes that area late at night...at first i thought it might be a cop--then i heard this woman screaming. It was a blood curdling scream----she slams her driver seat door and starts running towards the main wal-mart door. The guy (in the passenger seat) gets out and yells to her "you whore--go ahead and sleep with Ryan again--see if you have any windows when you get back"......my heart was racing.... I was terrified that this mad man would start busting her windows as well as ours-i even had my mind racing with "oh he has a gun and will shoot and kill us". We didn't want him to even know we were in the car ---after he threw a beer bottle out of the car-i told laura to just start the engine and we drove off. We went out and then back into the parking lot-by the main area and after taking some time to calm down we finally fell asleep for the night.

You have to forgive me--i'm typing real fast and my mind is scattered...so forgive typos and loose thougths.