Corpus Christi

Brian had his first residency interview, and it was down in Corpus Christi. They gave him a hotel for Thursday night, and he planned to leave Thursday night after school. During playgroup that morning, I had a friend (thanks, Cassidy) mention that I should go down with him. What--leave my house? :) Yeah, so we did a quick packing job & got ready to go with Daddy!! The hotel was so awesome--they had steps out the door that went right down to the beach. Even though it was pretty cold & cloudy, my girls wanted to go to the beach. You'd think they had never seen a beach before...:)

After freezing on the beach (at least we had the whole beach to ourselves:), then the girls decided they wanted to go swimming in the hotel pool-with some persuassive talk from Mommy:

While we were showering and getting ready to check-out of the hotel, B called and said that some of the doctors & faculty at Driscoll Children's Hospital wanted to meet us. So, all us girls, in our grungy beach & play clothes went up to the very nice hospital, found B in his spiffy suit, and met some of the faculty. They really liked Brian, and I think Corpus is definitely a step or two (or fifty) up from Galveston. We'll see what happens in the end...

After the greetings, Brian continued his interview, and we Payne girls took a picnic went to an awesome park we saw along the way to the hospital. Liz fell asleep for the first little while:

Doesn't it look like a fun park?...

It's actually very similar the the castle park here in Galveston:

There was also a pier at the park, where we could go out and look at the water. The water's not clear, but it's not brown, either. Faye took this picture:

And this is my favorite picture from our trip: