Finally, September 19th rolled around. It is the day Dawson goes to visit his mother for the weekend. I knew when he left that we would not be able to start our cruise adventure until we picked him up on Sunday at 6 pm. But we were hoping his mother would agree to let us pick him up after church on Sunday. Either way, it would be a long wait for us to pick him up. So, around 5:30, Jim left to take Dawson to visitation. Jim returned around 6:30, walking in the door saying “we have a little problem.” My heart sank. Then right behind Jim walks in Dawson!!! Turns out that everyone at Dawson’s mothers house was ill and she didn’t want to take the chance of Dawson getting sick right before his vacation!!!! This means we could actually leave for Galveston much earlier!!!
But, since we have pets to make sure they are cared for, we stuck with the plan on leaving on Sunday!!!
On Saturday, we made sure everything was packed and ready to go. Of course, there are always last minute things we need to get so we did that as well.
We were definitely ready to roll on Sunday. We only had to make one stop at my brother-in-laws to drop off our 3 month old puppy for him to watch then we were on the road. We made our regular stop at Buc-ees and stopped for something to eat along the way but other than that, it was just a normal Sunday drive to Galveston!!!
After we got checked into our hotel, we went to have dinner at The Original Mexican Cafe. Fernando insisted on having 2 drinks and did not want to share, silly frog. He somehow managed to sneak into the car so now we were forced to take him to dinner with us!
Nothing else really happened on this night. Nothing to do but to take in the views and walk around. And pick up forgotten items from WalMart!!!
Now to try to get some sleep before we board the ship!!! It’s never easy for me to sleep before embarkation day. I just hope there is something good on TV to pass the time!!!
Installment #3 will be our embarkation day!!!
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