Vacation!-Part 1

Recently, someone so graciously gave Brad a gift card for a specific vacation that we could choose amongst several different locations. Moody Gardens was one of the places they offered and since it was close to us and we didn't have to buy plane tickets, we thought it was perfect for us! Brad was able to take some much needed time off for a couple of days, so we decided to just spend two days and nights at Moody Gardens in Galveston. This was the 1st vacation we have taken being just our little family. So, we drove down to Galveston and checked into our room which had a balcony that the kids absolutely loved! The kids were so excited it was like they had never seen a bed before!!

The Moody Gardens Hotel is really nice and surprisingly caters to your children as they have bags stuffed with all kinds of little things for kids like bubbles, activity pads, little stuffed animal, etc. They also have crafts for them, sports times, face painting and a huge inflatable bounce house with a slide that Isabella and Elijah practically lived for!

Isabella wanted a butterfly but the lady only had time to half of the butterfly!
Elijah wanted to be a leopard and he walked around the rest of the day growling at everyone!

Elijah begged to go see the dinosaur movie so he could wear the "funny" glasses......

....and right after this picture was taken, he began screaming for a straight 30 minutes! Before the 15 minute movie even started, he started screaming saying he was scared and tried to run OUT of the pitch black theater! I grabbed him as he was running by me and held him and he had his arms, head and legs wrapped so tightly around me, I now know what it feels like to be strangled by an octopus! We were happy to hear other children screaming too so the attention wasn't entirely on us and there was a screaming mass exodus out of the theater! So Elijah is now scarred for life and we are probably banned from the 4D movies at Moody Gardens!

We decided to move on to the dinosaur exhibit that we were told was very tame (or did they same "lame"?) but Elijah was still a little rattled as you can see in this picture:

I LOVE his face in this picture! The T-Rex above them was growling and smoke blowing out of its nose and Elijah was a little nervous that it was going to come off it's platform.

Then we went to The Aquarium and this quickly became their absolute favorite thing to do while we were there! We went back twice since we had unlimited tickets!

Where we saw all these cute little penguins........this very ferocious-looking shark that Elijah was mesmerized by......
...and this very large seal or seal lion that kept swimming in circles and rubbing his back against the glass! We then ended our day on the Strand. We ate dinner, went for ice cream, and then took a carriage ride which the kids thought was so great except for Isabella holding her nose the whole ride because she said the horse was "stinky"!

So cute! A little table just their size! The next post will be about us going to the beach....stay tuned!