The Eagle Turner Texas Island Digs

By Chris Turner -




Hello All,
We have attached some pictures of and from our South Padre Island place. Two photos from the balcony, looking south then north. It was sort of hazy. Some days the visibility is great. There are often fishermen in the surf every hundred yards or so. Not too many swimmers yet.




The apartment reminds me of something those "wild and crazy guys" from SNL might have wanted. The entertainment center seems to be from the 70s – in fact the whole place does. It's virtually all red, white and black. There were "decorator items" on every flat surface in the place. We concentrated many of them on or near the entertainment center, to get them out of our way. The two bedrooms are shown. The black and white squares on one wall are actually blocks of styrofoam glued on to the wall. Lots of mirrors in both bedrooms. We're told by others in the building that the place was redecorated a couple of years ago, and that it was even more weird before.


 
 



Kay is in the blue top standing on the lower right balcony in the photo of the building. The balcony faces east, so we get the sunrise.




Dad/Bil

Comments

Cynthia Turner said…
It's a good thing you turn the lights out when you go to bed at night, otherwise I don't think anyone could sleep in those bedrooms! And, a good thing that you get to look out the windows to the lovely view of the warm sand.
Sunday, January 31, 2010 9:07:00 PM
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