Day 4- Galveston Beach

Today we drove 30 minutes to Galveston! We decided to go to Stewart Beach, which we read online was great for families and children. I know they are still trying to recover from Hurricane Ike, but I think a beach is a beach! I loved it and so did the kids:)

When we first got to the beach, I was thinking it was going to be a very long day! Katelyn refused to stand on her own! She hates getting her feet dirty and the water freaked her out!! As the time went by, she started to love it and in the end, I couldn't keep her out of the water!! She kept saying, "swimming.... all done.... swimming...finished...swimming." She couldn't make up her mind! She loved the beach!!!!

Camden loved swimming in the deep water with his dad which honestly made me really nervous!!! I watch way to much of Shark stuff on Discovery Planet!! Mark taught him how to dive in the waves. He was in love with the beach!! He is begging us to go back to the beach again tomorrow after the space center. We had such a good time, we might actually do it:)

Without a doubt, my favorite photo of the day!!!

Day 3- Exploring San Antonio

Tuesday, we spent the afternoon exploring Downtown San Antonio. ; We met a couple in our hotel that went to the Riverwalk and strongly recommended taking a Scenic Riverboat Tour. It was pretty interesting. San Antonio definitely has lots of history!!

When we finished out tour, it was around lunch time, so we picked a little place off the river that served.... Corn Dogs and Brocolli!!! I will give you one guess who wanted it for lunch:) We knew we had to drive to Houston in a few hours, but Mark wanted a margarita, so we decided to split one. Our margarita was.... Thirty Bucks!! I have never paid so much for 1 margarita before!! They were really proud of it!! We did get to keep the margarita glass as a souvenier:)

Next, we walked over to the Alamo! You hear about it in history and make this image in your mind of it being so bigger than it was! In reality, it was very small compared to what I would have thought and right smack dab in the middle of the city. All these huge buildings and then... the Alamo! Camden LOVED it!! He loved hearing about the history and seeing all the old guns, knives, bullets, cannons, etc... He even got to make a wish from the old wishing well! He took the wish very seriously and didn't tell anyone and took his sweet time while a line was forming behind us!! That is so my son:)

After the Alamo, we headed in the car for the drive to Houston! Our trip has just begun. We still have the space center and the beach!! The three hour drive was really short in comparison to the drive on Sunday! We decided to hit the hotel pool again upon our arrival. This hotel is absolutely beautiful!! It has only been open for a few months and it is amazing!!!! It is almost to nice.. I hope we don't get kicked out for having loud kids... Just kidding!!!