We love a good adventure, so on Sunday, we headed down to Galveston for Father's Day! We started at the Aquarium at Moody Gardens. The kids get in free with their good grades, which is always nice.
The aquarium has a lot of sea turtles, which is perfect for our sea-turtle-obsessed boy. If you look closely under the rock, you can see Chloe, a Kemp's Ridley with paralyzed back legs that make her unrealeasable into the wild.
The aquarium had a small stand dedicated to helping sea turtles. The boys got to hold a Kemp's Ridley turtle shell. We know a lot about turtles due to Henry's fascination with them, but we did learn some new information: if you see plastic bottles on the beach with diamond shapes cut out of them, those are turtles' bite marks. Turtles often mistake plastic bags and plastic bottles for food, so it is really important to make sure trash is put in the trash or recycling bins!
More turtles for Henry.
We also saw more jawfish, like we saw in San Diego.
After lunch at Moody Gardens, we headed to Galveston Island State Park to go to the beach. It's not as pretty as San Diego, but the boys enjoyed the warm water and learning how to body surf.
Sand sculpting again -- this time, a crab!
We did our best to pick up trash on the beach. We found an oil bottle with a diamond-shaped turtle bite out of it and threw it right out.
We had a great time at the beach until a crab pinched Gene's foot and then a few minutes later, Henry cut his foot on a shell! We decided to rinse off, bandage Henry's foot and head back to town for the rest of the afternoon.
I really wanted to visit the new Bryan Museum that just opened but they are currently only offering hour-long docent-led tours, and that's never the best choice for our family. We'll have to go back in the future when we can explore on our own.
Instead, we headed to the Galveston Railroad Museum.
We'd never been before, so it was fun to explore.
And then we headed to the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig Museum. We'd been before, but it was worth a second visit.
Goofy Henry looks like he's falling asleep on the job!
Dad and his boys on Father's Day
By the time we finished our museum visits, it was dinnertime. We ate at Fisherman's Wharf, like we always do when we're in Galveston. There's nothing better than fresh seafood and local beer (we tried Galveston Brewing Company's Tiki Wheat) with a view of the Elissa and the water.
We ended the day with ice cream at La King's Confectionery: chocolate chip cookie dough for Will and mint chocolate chip for Henry, with licks of both for Mom. We watched the taffy being pulled and came home with a bag of treats to enjoy this week.
Our day in Galveston was full and busy and fun and just the perfect way to spend Father's Day together.
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