Party of 5: 24 hours on Island Time

is not long enough!   One must allow at least 36 to fully enjoy the idea of island time.

Kevin and I are lucky enough to know someone who owns their own private plane. A big enough one to hold 6 passengers and actually fly somewhere cool in one tank.

There's friends and then there's friends with planes...

Cleverly thinking, I told Eddie, our friendly pilot, that if he took Kevin and I somewhere we would do all the coordinating of the events. Of course he agreed, so the planning begun. We were going to go the Hill Country, but decided to try Mustang Island first. Reason being, you can land at the small Port Aransas runway and there is a free courtesy car to use if you stay at Harbor Inn. So, we thought for our first getaway (yes, we have a few planned with our new BFFs...) this sounded fun and easy!

I thought 24 hours was long enough. Leave at 12 noon on Sunday and return the same time on Monday. 24 hours of babysitting shouldn't break the bank and it was more than enough time away, right? No! The time flew by. We didn't land until 2 and by 9 the next morning we were headed away from the hotel back to the plane. Even though the time was too short, it was so much fun. Eating without kids is just simply amazing!!! I highly recommend it! The seafood was delicious and we laughed and drank until the sun started to set.   We went exploring around the island ended the night with even more seafood in our already full bellies.   The hotel was fun and quaint and didn't break the bank.

A quite funny thing happened that we didn't even realize until we returned home. When we landed, Eddie told us the courtesy car was a Subaru. Right ahead of us were 2 red Subarus. Each were unlocked and had the keys in the same place. We chose the one on the right for no reason at all. Turns out we spent 24 hours in a stolen car. HA! The hotel owned the other red Subaru. How we were supposed to know this is beyond me. Anyway we had fun on our crime spree and we happily returned the car with a full tank. What kind of robbers do that?

The ride back was a tad bumpy and I had to concentrate not to decorate the inside of the plane with last night's dinner. Dramamine will definately be on the itenary next time. Kevin flew a great deal of the trip and even made the landing into West Houston Airport.   Even though he is a commercial pilot, I was a tad scared, but he did awesome.

We are already planning our next trip in a few months to the Hill Country for some wine! Until then enjoy some pictures from our little getaway:

Eddie, Keri and me right before takeoff.

Nice wings, huh?