The Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria

The New Royal Family

Just the three of us!

Grammie, Mom, and Madelyn

This bucket sure is heavy

Maddie ringing the Mast bell

Madelyn working the Bilge Pump

The Santa Maria-dry docked when a barge it and now its unsafe to board

On deck looking at an hour glass

The Nina

Grammie and Madelyn driving the boat

Hanging like a bat

Playing at the Light House

On the ferry back to Port Aransas

Labor Day Weekend, we packed our bags and flew down to Corpus Christi for a long weekend on the beach in Port Aransas with my Mom and Bryan. The weather could have not have been more perfect despite Hurricane Gustav recking havoc along the Louisiana Coast. While we

were there we spent an afternoon at the Corpus Science Museum, that was displaying the replicas of the Christopher Columbus' Nina, Pinta, and the Santa Maria. They also had a great kids museum that totally captured Madelyn's attention. But the ships were awesome! I can't even imagine having been a sailor and overcoming so many obstacles for the sake of advancing navigation. Not to mention how far in terms of terms of transportation have come since 1492. We think traveling is difficult now, just think back a few hundred centuries!