Our trip to Galveston!

Last weekend we took a trip to Galveston with my parents. I'm so glad we went and we had a great time with my parents! We stayed at the Moody Gardens hotel, so that was really neat because we were really close to all of the stuff there at Moody Gardens. We were able to check in saturday morning when we got there and then we headed over to the rainforest. We walked all through there and saw lots of pretty birds and animals. Jayda especially liked the parrots that were in there. After the rainforest we headed over to the aquarium. The aquarium was neat, but the best thing by far were the penguins. They were so cute and you could even watch them dive under the water and swim around. It was the coolest thing. Jayda napped during most of our tour of the aquarium, but when she woke up we took her to see the penguins and the big aquarium. She loved them all and kept pointing at the fish saying "oh-oh-oh". After that we were all feeling a bit tired so we headed back to the hotel to take a little break. Once we felt energized again we went to Palm Beach. There was a aplash park there that Jayda loved. We also swam around in the fake beach for a little while. We decided that we'd rather go back to our hotel and swim in nice, clean pool water, so we headed back. We swam there for a while and enjoyed the waterfall in the pool. That night we went to the hotel restaurant and had a nice relaxing meal. We had a great day and did ton of stuff! The next morning Jacob and I woke up and went for a run on the seawall. It actually wasn't very hot and was nice and breezy. We had fun chatting on our run and we tried looking for crabs down in the rocks but didn't find any. After our run we came back to the hotel and got ready for our trip to the much anticipated Rainforest Cafe. I had really been looking forward to our meal there because I knew they had good food and I knew Jayda would love it. And, of course she did. At first she was kinda freaked out by the gorillas (since I asked for the table directly in front of them), but after a while she was fine and was even waving at them when they'd start dancing. Lunch was wonderful, as expected and then we went on the adventure ride. Now that was cool! We got to ride all together in the water through a make believe rainforest with gorillas, snakes, elephants, monkeys and all kinds of other animals. I really enjoyed the ride although Jayda again got a little spooked out. I don't blame her though because it was really dark and very loud (with all the animal sounds) in there. Lastly, after our adventure ride we walked over to the seawall and walked along the beach for a while. Jacob and I got a snocone while Jayda slept in her stroller as we walked. So, we had a very busy few days, but it was so much fun! Thanks mom and dad for taking us!!!!

Oupa had Jayda some earrings made for her and she was very excited to open them!


The 3 of us in the rainforest at Moody Gardens.


Oma and Oupa in the rainforest at Moody Gardens.


All the cute little penguins at the Moody Gardens aquarium.


Oupa and Jayda running through the splash park.


Oupa and Jayda playing under the mushroom at Palm Beach.


Oma and Jayda having fun at the hotel pool.


All of us hanging out under the waterfall.


Miss Jayda posing in front of the Rainforest Cafe with the froggy.


Jayda and daddy on the adventure ride, not too sure what to think yet!


Oma and Oupa ready for the big ride!