Day 16: Picture Day

If any of you are following my schedule of events that I listed the other day, then you would know that yesterday was Galveston day. We were going to get professional pictures done at JC Penney's and then take a drive to Galveston which is near the Gulf of Mexico. We had kind of dismissed that driving idea the day before though, because it was going to be a long car ride and the beach there is not very nice.

When getting ready for the pictures, we had gone to Walmart and picked up some basic color T-shirts that we were going to wear for the shoot. I got a green shirt. After I was ready, Scott deposited Julie into my arms as he got changed into his shirt. Something that caused quite a stir from Katie and Carol, as it was evidently a "picture worthy" event.



After everyone was ready we drove out to the store and waited for our session to start. The pictures went alright, but the camera person wasn't really able to get Julie to smile. I don't know if you've been to these kind of things with little children before, but they make all kinds of crazy sounds and voices, trying to get the baby's attention to look near the camera and to smile. Although Julie didn't get upset by this, she wasn't really interested. The few times she did look at the camera it was with a look of confusion rather than smiling glee. After getting about 6 poses taken, it was time to pick the pictures to buy.



The funny thing is, if you point a camera at Julie she looks right at it anyway, without having to do any crazy stuff. As you know, I'm not a fan of doing crazy stuff. Not in front of the general public anyway.



That was the end of that portion of the day and we didn't really have much other than that planned except that we were probably going to go out to a Texan steakhouse, at my request. As a side note, did you know that the US car manufacturers make Texas versions of their trucks for here?



After we got back we decided to go shooting. Scott has two guns, a shotgun and a Spanish pistol. When he practices with the shotgun, he does it clay pigeon style. I took a picture of Scott and Katie shooting the clay pigeons, but I forgot to pass of the camera while I did it. So here's a picture of them.



I managed to get 12 out of 25 pigeons, which I think is a respectable first showing. After we each did 25 pigeons, we switched to the pistol range. I had noticed that we forgot to take a picture of me with the shotgun, so we were sure to get a good one with me and the pistol.



After shooting, we went back to the house and chilled until dinner. We decided to go to a place called Saltgrass for dinner. I had the 12 oz sirloin steak, and a 22 oz Shiner, which is the Texas equivalent of Sam Adams I'm told. It was all good. The giant slice of six layer chocolate cake we had for dessert was also very good.



That's all the main stuff we did yesterday. Today is the Texas State Rodeo and the Brad Paisley concert. I'll have pictures of that stuff tomorrow.