Galveston Get Away

My sister and I decided going on a little vacation to Galveston would be fun. We rented a condo in Pointe West for three nights. This was the first "REAL" vacation we've ever taken the girls on. We went to San Antonio when Saige was 12 weeks old and haven't been anywhere since. She was a difficult sleeper and with both girls being little, napping we honestly didn't see the point. But both are now bigger and can handle it better.

Our first day there we went to Moody Gardens. We got the day passes and had a blast. We started out at the 4D Dora IMAX. It was the kind that sprayed you with a water mist when Dora went through a waterfall and you could feel the wind when they were swinging on ropes.




Then we headed over to the rain forest pyramid. They had new animals to see. Some were running around FREE! They had these two monkey's (not sure on the type) but they would run on the railings right by us. We asked if they would bite and the lady said yes. We couldn't believe they had them running around like that.





We also got to see the butterflies. Aaron managed to catch one and let it walk on him and from then on Reese became obsessed with doing the same. She was so sad when she couldn't do it.




We then went down to the aquarium they have. The girls loved seeing all the fish, penguins and seals.








We then went over to the dinosaur tent they have. I had no idea that was ever there!! Reese and Saige went in but were a little scared at first. Saige was ok until I took her out of her stroller for a picture and then she got really scared. I'm the mean mom who thought it was funny and made her take a picture. Reese was fine with it all. She has never been scared of this kind of stuff, but Saige ALWAYS has been. Bless her heart! They were pretty big.






And we finished our Moody Gardens day off with the boat ride. I've always wanted to go on that boat and we finally did.





We then went to check into our condo, ran to walmart and got all settled in. We went to the pool and swam and came back for dinner at the condo. This was our view at the end of the night.



*I almost forgot to mention that night about 930 both girls had fallen asleep on the couch and aaron, kara and I were playing a game. We heard this really loud noise outside that sounded like kids screaming. I thought "Oh no! We better tell them to hush because if they wake my babies it's on!" Kara opens the door to see what was going on and sure enough, there was a raccoon outside the door screaming. She said it was smaller and looked very mad. She quickly shut the door but me being super noisy wanted to see for myself. I opened the door a tiny tiny bit and that thing was right at my toes. I didn't see much of him. Just enough fur to know that there was a wild animal about to enter our condo. We found out the next day that the thing was running into walls and totally freaking out. There was blood on the walls too-eww! The rest of the trip we were a little scared to come out of the elevator in fear that the coon would get us. Aaron even brought his golf club up one night to help protect us. ha!!