Friday Feb. 4. (we're catching up)It started to warm up in south Texas, so we headed to the kite festival on South Padre Island. This isn't just a bunch of people flying kites, it's an international competition. They make the kites jump and dance to music, usually in groups of three to six kite controllers. We witnessed incredible skill; skittering colors.
South Padre Island is 
a gorgeous strip of sand and beach, most of it undeveloped, but that which is developed is really developed—the southern 10 miles or so—with high rises all along the gulf coast side. After a delicious lunch of fresh shrimp at the “only place,” Dirty Al’s, we took a drive along the beach (yes you can drive, and it’s a state park) and a romp through the big dunes. Our guides and hosts for all this were Ruth’s cousin Jimmy Dammann and wife Lynette, from Glencoe, MN, who are spending a 
few winter months in south Texas.
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