Jim, Jon, Clare, Jenny
Jack, Clare, MeHello from corpus christi!
Started yesterday out in San antonio. Jim, Jon, Clare, and I went to Taco Taco for breakfast (the tshirts say 'the restaurant so nice they named it twice'). It was voted best taco in America by Food Network and had a bunch of accolades on their walls, and it did definitely not
disappoint. So many breakfast tacos!
It was then back to clare's to get ready for the trip. Jon and clare got ready while Jim and I took our cars to get oil changes. Nana has been doing so well on this trip and she deserved a break! Jim has a prius so his car was done very quickly, but the mechanic keep looking at nana and making me nervous (I felt like a parent at the doctor's office with my kid). Everything turned out just fine, and the guy offered me a book of coupons "even though [I am] not from around
here". I politely declined. Thanks express lube!
Since I took so long, got back to clare's late and we rushed to get on the road to corpus Christi. The trip is only about 2.5 hours on one highway, so you think I would be fine with it, considering how long I have been on the road recently. But Texas outside of the city is so
boring! And there was some torrential downpours that we drove through that made me a little nervous but Jon drove through them just fine. And we saved the earth by taking the prius down!
We finally got to corpus Christi and met up with jack and Jenny. You have already met Jenny (I stayed with her in Omaha). Jack is one of my best friends from grad school who currently works at Texas A&M - Corpus Chrisi in he student activities office (working mainly with Greek life). Jenny had flown in on Wednesday right before the storm and had been staying with jack since then.
After we got here and all said hi, we drove to downtown and had lunch at an oyster bar (I was not brave enough to try one though). After lunch we walked down the South Texas Music Hall of Fame (bigger than you would think, but the only name I recognized was Christopher cross)
and then went into the surfing museum. Interesting stuff there!
We then walked around the beach and bayfront type area. It's funny that the city is in Texas, because it really resembles a surfing city in Florida (or so I would presume- never been there) or California. The actual city of corpus Christi is on the mainland and faces the bay, while padre island (not to be confused with south padre island) is where the ocean side is.
Other "fun" facts about corpus Christi:
- the birdiest city in America
- the fattest city in America
- the place where Selena was killed
(see, they're not very fun)
Went back to jacks apt and hung out for a bit- that is really what we do best. Then we went to a local bar (burger & co maybe?) and listened to a cover band (Good Night Avenue), ate some food, and drank some Mexican beer. Good times!
It is nice to be around good friends- we talked about it last night how natural it feels when we are all together and how comfortable we all are. And we make fun of each other incessantly which is so much fun! I am the instigator of most of them I feel...
There are six of us staying in a one bedroom apt, which is a little cramped but good! It ended up with jack and I sleeping on an air mattress in the living room, with said air mattress losing all of it's air after about 30 minutes. So sleeping on the floor instead!
Onto Saturday in corpus Christi!
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