South Padre Island

HI,

on Thursday we(Flo, Alex, Ellen and I) decided to rent a car and go down to south padre island the next day. South Padre is pretty close to the mexican boarder and a 6 hour american highway drive away. Like the world works today, it seriously was cheaper to book the car in Germany. So we rented a Dodge Neon for three full days. The hardest thing is probably to stay awake while driving. No seriously, as soon as youre out of the city center, driving gets so boaring. Roads are heading straight for miles and miles. You set the cruise control and there is really nothing to do. You dont even have to steer.
Had some impressive US experience right after the start. For instance a drive through bank. Lazy americans, arent they?


We arrived at the best western at 6 pm. The sun was just setting down and fishes were jumping out of the marina next to us.
We spend to cool days at the beach, got badly sunburnt, played volleyball and relaxt. From time to time it was hard to breath. We have been told thats because of some algeas in the water. We although did a lot of shopping. Because its the end of the season everything was deeply discounted. For dinner we went to the islands brewery and later had some beers at a waterfront bar.
On Sunday it only rained for seconds, enough to get us of the beach and back into the stores. In the evening we drove back to Austin.