Ok, I'm finally getting the opportunity to sit down and do my second vacation post. You can view the first one here if you missed it. So, Monday we went to the beach. It was a nice, mostly overcast day. Don't think those clouds fooled us though. Being the pale family we are, we stopped to buy sunscreen anyway. None of us managed to get burnt at all. Woohoo! I had memories of Galveston being a little dirty, but I never had bad memories of it. Everyone told us before going how gross the beach is. While it is no Bahamas, it is quite beautiful. My Aunt Marci said that the hurricane a few years ago cleaned it up quite a bit. The sand felt like powder, and the beach smelled of wonderful salt water. It was everything you want a beach to be and we really had a good time. The kids had never seen the ocean before and only knew what they see on TV. Aunt Marci and Uncle John rented an umbrella so that little Rylie wou...