Crystal Beach July 4th!!!

Monday July 7, 2008

Ever since the first time my husband, John, and I went and played at Crystal Beach, TX a few years ago, we've been dying to go back. It's a blast down there! Kind of like New Orlean's Mardi Gras meets Spring Break on Padre Island. It's the only place I know of where you can drive on the beach and be drinking from an open container and the cops don't even look twice. Unless you're doing something stupid that is...like the idiots we saw down there the first time who dug holes in the sand with the rear wheels of their jacked-up 4x4 Ford. It was hilarious because the cops made the stupid guys get out of their truck and fill in the holes with the sand while we all watched.

This past weekend we went back! I had set up renting a beach house down there and we brought a few friends along from Oklahoma. It was awesome! Just like old times...

I lost track of how much alcohol we went through, how many trips to the store we made, how many hours and miles of beach we walked, stumbled, or flat-out dragged ourselves through, and how many strings of beads I had thrown at me. Let's just say that if I were a pirate and the beads were actual gold, I'd be set. At one point there were people bunking in the beach house that I didn't know. (They were family and friends of one of our friends who had shown up to party with us.) It was rather funny when I woke up after a night of drinking and had no idea who these people were that were passed out on the floor and deck of the house. But I shrugged and started making breakfast.

It was four days of fun, sun, and booze. What more could you ask for?! Soooo looking forward to doing it all again next year!!!!