Here comes the sun...

Up at 6 am this morning for some reason...walked over to Kroger to get a disposable camera and ended up getting this little bitty pissant digital cam for 20 bucks. Of course, didn't realize I bought one without flash until I opened it. But...hopefully it'll suffice until I get paid, then I might go get one a little more fancy. All I need at the moment is the ability to take some pics and put them online.
GREAT afternoon and evening yesterday...spent late morning/early afternoon sitting on the beach drinking mimosas with Billie, Phil G, Cody and Joe. Started to fry a little despite sunscreen, so Billie and I walked back to hotel. Chilled late afternoon, checked email, chatted with Rick, got great phone call from Scott, then Cody texted with dinner plans. Met up and drove down the seawall to a great place called Fish Tails, which is right across Seawall from the destroyed Flagship Hotel. The Flagship is a hotel built out on a pier in the Gulf, and it was wrecked by Hurricane Ike in 2008. Most of Galveston has really bounced back, but you can still see there's a lot of damage and places where people can't afford to rebuild. The Strand is still cool, but is not quite the way I remember it.
After dinner, we went to the Poop Deck for drinks and pool, then went back downtown to try and find this bar we'd seen the evening before. It was closed, so we went to the Stage Door Pub, which is right next to the Opera House. Played trivia with Billie while Phil G and Joe got into a discussion about the show and about racism with this total douche who was just arguing to be an asshole. However, we got free hot dogs, which made the evening worthwhile.
Today is load in at the Opera House at noon, then the rest of the day is free. Probably spend some more time on The Strand (might go check out the railroad museum), then go to the ice cream parlor and probably back to the Stage Door. More later as it happens.

Namarie.