Fun While Traveling

Matt had a work trip to South Padre Island after the New Year and due to some weather issues and ticket black out days, we were still in the U.S. so we tagged along with him down to Texas.  We had a lot of fun on our family road trip even though we drove through some blizzards along the way. When we got down to South Texas we were excited that the temperature was moving right up.  Then we were SO excited when we saw our ocean front hotel suite...more like apartment! Then the next morning when we had planned to hit the beach...it started pouring and got cold! Disappointing! So with Matt working, Ella and I hung out and watched movies, painted nails, played Barbies and then took one day to explore.  We went to a Sea Turtle Rescue center and to a huge (very touristy) Sea Shell Store.  More sea shells than we had ever seen! Then that night we joined Matt at the Slam Dunk contest.  Then we headed back up to Houston and made the LONG (15 hours) trip back to Doha. But this time we rode as a family, which was nice.
(pictures coming soon - on other computer in Qatar)