Back to Life, Back to Reality...

Well, vacation is over, it ended Monday morning when my alarm went off...
I must say though that our little beach vacation could not have been better!
We slept in Monday and took our little Scout to his Grandparent's house to spend a few days and headed down to Galveston. Ryan has only been there a time or two and although I have been a countless amount it has been a good 3 years and I haven't been back since all of the IKE damage.

We stayed at The Tremont House and it was pretty fancy. Our room was pretty big, 14 ft ceilings and made us feel like we were in a movie or something. LOVED it! Hotels make me happy, most you probably know that I love room service and just staying at hotels. I think they are fabulous. The first thing we did when we got there was order room service haha

We went to the beach, the pool and shopping around The Strand. There are some really great antique stores down there that I love but my favorite was closed because the people were "On Holiday." Well Antique Warehouse I will allow you to be on holiday... because I am on Holiday too.

We went to the Bishop's Palace since Ryan has never been and we revisted our original wedding sites- before choosing Huntsville we were going to get married in Galveston. I had found the church and reception hall and by an act of God we changed it at the last second. Had we not changed it IKE would have rained on our parade and we probably would have had to push our wedding date back etc. it would have been a disaster! I am pleased to say the church is back up and running but the plantation home we chose is still damaged and you can't visit it yet-sad day!

We also got to meet up with a few friends of ours while we were there which was great! We ate some great seafood at Casey's, Willie G's and Seaside Grill. We also ate at Carlos Mencia's new mexican restaurant that took the place of Fuddruckers on the Strand... don't be fooled by the fact that nothing has changed inside- it still looks like a Fuddruckers. It is mexican and it was no good! Sorry Carlos... we had high hopes but when my quesidillas were soaking wet from grease and ryan's nachos were strickly refried beans and cheese we knew we had made a mistake coming there. We also stopped at a Qualls family favorite on our way our- Mario's pizza! My Nana, Aunt Zonakay and her boys came up for the day to go to Schlitterbahn so we had to get some Marios!! It was great as always!

Galveston, I have missed you! Thank you for letting me relax with you this past week!! A dose of you was just what Ryan and I needed!! It was seriously so great to get away without having to fly or drive far away! I LOVE you Galveston :)