Hi everyone, lets play catchup shall we......ok,so after we left Pilanque we headed for the Emerald Coast where the beaches have black sand. We picked an rv site from our book and hooked up. It had a pool and water slides for the kids. It was right on the beach, a great location. It was not near as nice as the yucatan though, and we were once again wishing we would of stayed longer in Paa muul. It being what it was though we enjoyed ourselves. Unfortuntately we didnt have internet service there. The weather was hot, and the pool was warm and it was very buisy because it was cinco demaio (sp) (the fifth of may). We had several young boys lingering around our rv lurking after our older girls, it was a little concerning.!! They kept asking to borrow our soccer ball and showing off for our girls. Mark and i rode our bikes into town a few times to grab a coffee and check things out but for the most part the little town we were staying 4 miles out of was very small and quite uneventful. We stayed here for 3 days and carried onto Cuidad Victoria. This was a bussling city, just about 3 hours from the border. We stayed 2 nights here and did some shopping and a shit load of walking, holly cow. Again walking anywhere with our older girls was a challenge. Mexican boys and men, don't have any dignity, they just stare and gauk and shout, its disturbing and crazy all at the same time~!~ Mark enjoyed half a day shopping out with us than he graciously took the little ones off my hands so the older girls and i could finish the day off. While we were gone he McGivored up a sprinkler for the little ones out of a two ltr pop bottle. It was ingenious!! We all had a little run through it when we got home. We left bright and early the next day, at around 6am and headed for the border. We crossed at Pharr on the US side. It was a breeze coming through the border actually which was a relief, we had to get out of the motorhome while it got searched but it was only for about 10 minutes. (We could of smuggled that little kitten in after all!!) The first thing we noticed after crossing was a sting operation going down at a motel, after that we saw another one going down at a gas station. WOW, scary!! The next thing we noticed as we stopped for "Peter Piper Pizza" was how heavy people were, which made me feel a whole lot better because when you are sitting in an rv travelling around from place to place like we are you don't get a whole lot of exercise and i am sure that if i havn't gained weight, my mussels have disapeared at the very least. Anyways we got our pizza and headed towards Austin, to where we could hang out and relax with our good friends I think a little out of place is an understatement, but oh well. There was a grad photo session going on while we were soaking in the hot tub. We took turns picking our favorite gowns, it was great, it was like we had front row seats at a fashion show.
After we rehydrated in the pool and hot tub we went back to the rv and fed our kids. We than had them hang out in the hotel, which they were so happy to do. To have the space to lounge and have a shower and watch tv. Us adults went out for dinner to the restaurant, which was Scotts treat. It was great. Not only to visit and get some adult time in, but to eat a meal that was cooked by someone else! Thank you so much Scott, it was so greatly appreciated. We slept in the parking lot that night and than hooked up the next morning with Scott and Barbara to go out onto a Pontoon boat which they had rented. It was so cool. We had a blast, even the dogs enjoyed it.! Scott brought out the fishing rods and had the little ones fishing with him. They caught so many fish which they released, even the big girls caught some. We saw pretty much the whole lake, it was beautiful.....again thank you so much Barbara and Scott, it was a mothers day that will stay with me, thanks. After parking the boat we headed up towards the motorhome. i was carrying Aidan and he pointed out this huge creepy crawly, it turned out to be a giant centipede! It was about 7 inches long and it was black, yellow and red. We discovered that it was a giant desert centipede. It has sharp, poisonous claws and venomous fangs, it is scary fast too. It can reach speeds up to two feet per seconds!! Yikes! Im so glad that when it hid in the rocks it didn't come back out when we tried to poke it with a stick!
We were now on our way to Barbara and Scotts.