Hold Tight and Pretend It's a Plan: Adventuring Again

As we get a little bit more comfortable in our surroundings, we have ventured out for more outings and adventures in Corpus Christi. We also got paid by the Navy for our move and added some of that money to our 'date night fund' so that we can take advantage of time exploring before Ava gets here.

Tesla Auto Show

This was a free event that I found online and knew Mike would love. Tesla brought some cars down to showcase and offer test drives at a beach club in Port Aransas, TX (north of Padre island near Corpus Christi). The Tesla we got a test drive in (from one of their staff members) was the one with the white seats and it went 0-60 in like 3 seconds! Being pregnant, I let Mike experience that without me, but it was really weird for me to watch a car accelerate without making a sound (due to it being electric). It is beautiful out there, and I've heard we should go back and check out the downtown area of Port Aransas.

View of the beach from the golf club where the event was held

Side view of the 3 models Tesla brought

Interior view of my private car...the white seats were so cool!

Picture of Mike in the driver's seat (although we didn't drive on ourselves)

Full car view

Me in the back seat!

Annual Wimbledon Feast

Mike and I were able to partake in our annual Breakfast at Wimbledon tradition thanks to Mike finagling a way to watch the finals live on our Apple TV! I thanked him by making tomato sandwiches, cucumber sandwiches, strawberries & whipped cream (made in out KitchenAid), and a cheese plate. Perfect way to celebrate a Roger Federer win!

We used our nice china and Game of Thrones-themed cutting board since the season premiere was later that night!

Movies & Shows

We saw this movie in the Alamo Drafthouse in Corpus Christi (you can get food brought to you during the movie) and it was amazing! I found it super funny and also heartwarming. We've since also seen Spiderman which was also good.

We saw the local community theater's production of "Beauty and the Beast" which was really well done! They were mostly a young cast, but Belle sounded exactly like Belle from the movie. There is one other community theater in Corpus (besides the universities) that we are also planning to check out this weekend!

Recent Eats

Shrimp salad (marinated shrimp in lime/garlic/cumin then had avocado and tahini dressing)

I don't always eat this healthy, but we had leftovers so that helped:)

Other Projects

In addition to volunteering at a local career resource center one day a week, I began training last week to become a CASA (which is why I've been busier than usual). I will basically serve as a voice in court for the interest of the child in cases of abuse. It's a really great program and I'm glad I have time to get involved now, although I may still want to work in the future.

We bought some herbs for our balcony! Mike has kept them watered and so far none of them have died, so maybe soon we will use some of our basil, mint, and rosemary!

We finally finished our baby registry! You can search for us on Amazon or this link should also take you straight there. We tried to keep it minimal, but it was still an overwhelming process with so many options for everything out there these days (and also not having done the parenting thing yet).

In the long saga that has been our moving claims process, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. We are going to get almost $700 for missing items. Unfortunately, this is like 2 months after we moved and we got tired of having a desk with no legs siting on our floor, so Mike (being incredibly resourceful and motivated to not want to haul a desk body to a landfill or Goodwill) decided to make some! Even though they are slightly different color than the rest of the desk, it is going to save us money AND give us a working desk!!

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