Galveston Trip

This month has been crazy! I've been gone for a week and a half. It was nice to have a vacation before school started. We went to Denton to celebrate my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. It was neat. My grandmother's sisters came and surprised her. She cried whenever they talked about it. It was a dinner and everybody told something they remembered about my grandparents. By the end practically all the women and some of the men, were crying. My grandpa couldn't be there because he has medical problems, which with everyone talking about things they remembered about him, it almost seemed like his funeral. I video taped it all because my mom couldn't be there. She was in California for a Karios Outside conference. She hated to miss it. She cried when she saw the video.
Bobby and I stayed for the rest of the week because we went with Deanna's family, 2 friends of theirs, Uncle Andy and Uncle Kevin down to Galveston. It was awesome! I finally got to see the ocean!! It was brown which kind of countered everything I've ever seen or heard about the ocean. I was expecting it to be blue. I didn't really want to think about why it was brown.
We had an adventure while we were at the beach. We got there and unloaded everything from the van and car. We got out all the towls and camera's and the cooler and everything else we thought we'd need. Right after we got everything on the beach, it started to sprinkle. So we gathered everything back up and the boys (John and Joel) put everything in the car. The adults had been having problems with losing the keys to the cars so Uncle Kevin decided that he was not going to lose the key to the car. So he tied it to the strings of his swimming trunks. Well it stopped sprinkling pretty soon and we went and played in the ocean. Then Deanna and I decided to get out for a while, and we thought it would be fun to bury Tanya in the sand. I wanted to get a picture of her, but my camera was in the car and the car was locked. So I went out to where Uncle Kevin and the others were and asked him for the key. He moved to where the water was about waist deep and proceeded to try untying the key. We kept getting hit by waves and He said "We would be in big trouble if I were to lose the key." No truer words were ever spoken come to find out. Right as he got it loose a wave hit and he lost the key. At first when we tried to get Aunt Mim and the others to help they thought we were joking. But after they saw us frantically feeling the sand between waves, they realized the horrible truth: the key was gone. We looked in the ocean for a while but soon realized that we would probably never find it. So the adults got out and went to go make phone calls to see if they could find someone to make a replacement. They found a lock smith to unlock the car so i got my camera out and started taking pictures. We kids went back to playing since there was nothing else we could do. Around 1 all of us except Aunt Mim, Ashley, and Tanya went to eat lunch with Kim. Aunt Mim and her crew went and got fast food and tried to find someone to make a key. The adults still hadn't found anyone that could make a key that worked. The dealership gave them 2 keys but neither of them worked. After lunch we went back to teh beach and just sat around. The kids were bored because we had been playing all morning and most of us were sunburned. Finally Aunt Mim found someone who could make a key. So the adults went back into the ocean to play around until he came. He got there around 5:30. So we finally had a key!! We stayed for another 30 minutes so that the adults could get some more time in the ocean. We were teasing Uncle Kevin about the key the rest of the weekend. It was a good Vacation.