friday funday

The other day after work I decided that instead of heading home to loll on my bed and watch Netflix, I would instead take my camera and a change of clothes to work and head out to explore North Beach. North Beach is sort of...sketch, but it's still very touristy so there are all kinds of exciting buildings, objects, and people to view and photograph. My adventure was filled with explorations, frolicking in the water, people-watching, and alcoholic cherry limeades from my favorite beach bar.

• I walked out to the edge of a jetty outside the aquarium and snapped this perfect photo of a pelican resting on a buoy
• The edge of the jetty
• Decorated fences
• Corpus Christi is a big spring break destination. All of Texas goes on spring break at the same time and this last week was that special period of time before the summer that Wild Flight is really slammed
• For some reason I really liked this sign. I love the charm of a nice beach restaurant or bar
• Silhouettes of the aquarium and the Harbor Bay Bridge. Plus a lot of gulls

• A cormorant emerging from the water
• Spring Break boating
• A real live landshark! Candygram...
• Laughing Gulls
• Bonding with the Atlantic
• There were people who had parachuted/parasailed or something over the water because they were in wetsuits and attempting to pack away their chutes in the intense wind. It was sort of hilarious

• The beach bar/restaurant. Did I mention that they also serve delicious nachos?
• A giant game of Jenga out on the deck of Fajitaville
• My view from the bar deck. As I watched kids playing on the beach, gulls erupting from the sand, and the sun glimmering over the water, Pharrel's song "Happy" came on. I smiled
• Birds
• Take-off
• Sinking in my roots

• North Beach has some amazing picnic spots. They're stationed almost right next to the water and are incredibly high up off the ground so if the tide comes in, your feet don't get wet unless you want them to
• An amazing view
• I drew a heart in the sand
• I love this feeling
• One great thing I've noticed about Texas is the colorful buildings
• Blue walls plus fairy lights equals an amazing restaurant, in my opinion

• I saw these apartments and immediately started compiling a story about them in my mind. A story about someone who lives there
• The U.S.S. Lexington is right next to the aquarium
• Ocean spray
• Little pelican friend
• The beautiful sunrise on my second day of work
• On my walk along the jetty I saw this woman holding her dog and gazing out over the sea. I asked her if I could take her picture with her holding her dog, since I thought it was so cute. I haven't asked to take a stranger's picture since Minnesota!

It was an awesome exploration session, and since then I've done so many other fun, new things like (sort of) learned how to two-step, sunk a ball while playing pool, surprised people on the dance floor with my moves, had fog poured on me, drank too many dollar drinks, found a river sanctuary nearby my home (when I told my parents they said "don't go there! There might be weird people there!" woops, too late), gone to Geeks Who Drink trivia night at a local bar, failed miserably, went to a St. Patrick's Day block party and drank green beer, and of course am still getting used to my new job! Everything is new and exciting and exhausting and I am slowly getting accustomed to it. Today was my Friday (which is ironic since it's Monday) so I plan on using this weekend to get shit DONE, to sleep in, to explore, and to hopefully do a post filled with Iphone photos!