Somewhere Near Galveston

Our last afternoon in Texas the kids and I headed out to find Galveston Bay. We drove east until we found the water, and then looked for a place to stop. There was a shrimp shack style restaurant right by the water, so we parked the minivan and went in.

We asked to sit on the patio outside even though it was hot and muggy. The waitress brought us hush puppies instead of bread. I made all the kids try at least a bite. Only Izzy ate a whole one.

Eli ordered catfish and Izzy got popcorn shrimp. Then we sat and watched the oil tankers, one after another, float by on their way to Houston. They were massive and timed perfectly so that just as one started to be far away another entered our view.

The whole sky-line of the bay was industrial, with refineries and cranes in the distance in whatever direction we looked. Later when we started driving to Louisiana we passed by the other side of some of the same cranes and could see the point where we had sat far across Galveston Bay the other direction.

While we were eating a cool green lizard with a bright red gullet ran past us. Eli made me take a picture. He kept shouting the type of lizard he thought it was, but I can't remember what he said. He has a really good memory for that sort of thing.

When we returned to our hotel room we learned that tropical storm Issac was headed in past Haiti towards Florida. We wondered if the storm clouds we were seeing all day had anything to do with that storm, or if it was just a coincidence.