Just Beachy

We escaped from the city this last weekend and headed to the beach! We rented a house in Surfside with a bunch of our friends and spent the whole weekend goofing off. It was pretty awesome. We did a bunch of different things:

We barbequed.

(Paul, Kellen, and Ben surveying their masterpieces)

We gleefully ate the hot dogs off the barbeque.

(Ben enjoying a dogger)


We read some great literature.

(Me, Catherine and Becky indulging in some chick lit)

We did some damage on the waves.

(Me, Kellen, Ben, Dave and Paul trucking out to the water)


We napped.

(Dave kickin back)


We played some beach games...

(Kellen pitching the wiffle ball, Brad looking on from 2nd base)


...and some indoor games, too.

(the guys getting taken for a ride by our resident card shark Brad)


We generally relaxed our butts off.

(Kellen and I hanging out on the couch, sandy and salty and actually pretty gross)

The heat! Oh God, the heat!

It is hot in Houston.

Yeah Edouard!

Tropical Storms are great! Our best days in Houston have been those blessed by tropical storms. The reason for this is really quite simple, its not insufferably hot! Tropical storm Edouard turned out to be nothing more than a typical winter day in the NW - well, it was a bit warmer, in the 70's, but still...it rained, and there was some wind. Whats great is that the news media and government panic, businesses and schools close down and everyone hunkers in. AWESOME!! Sarah didn't have to go to work, I didn't have to go into the lab, it was the coolest its been in a month, no traffic, best air quality in a month, shit...I want more tropical storms!