Galveston Part 1

Tyson and I took the kids to go find the ocean this weekend. We have lived here for over a year and still have not made the trip- so on Friday we drove an hour to Galveston to see what we could see. There is no doubt (even a year and a half later) that the city was hit by a HUGE hurricane. There are still many building that have broken walls and windows and even some that have only the foundation left. We also saw some boats still sitting in fields. THe whole city looks forlorn. Despite that- it was soo fun to see the ocean! We went to Moody Gardens to see the rainforest and aqarium- but only the aqarium is open- the rest was damaged by IKE and will be repaired for 2011.

There were a LOT of fish, Seahorses, Penguins, and Sea Lions. They even had a small "touch Pool" where the kids got to feel some starfish. This area was a tunnel which led to a larger aqaurium and all of it was around us and over our heads
Tanner thought this was very cool until he saw a HUGE sea Turtle (5 ft long!) and a Shark - up close and showing all of his teeth- This scared him spitless and he wanted to leave very quickly - I don't know if he will go swimming this summer ;)

My kids in the Shark Cage- I think that explaining WHY they needed a shark cage- made it much scarier when he saw the real shark! OOPS!