I guess tehcnically it's day 3 of vacation. It was only going to be day 2, but we left Wednesday evening so we could get here and be here early for a day full of fun for yesterday.

It was a late night, not getting to be until 1:30 am.  

Yesterday, we didn't even go to the beach, lol.  We ended up at Moody Gardens. We had come here last time we came to Galveston and it was fun then. This time, with the kids, it was even more fun.  Well, backtracking, at first the kids were extremely pouty and mom was not having it. "Next vacation there will be NO kids".  She regretted almost instantly having had brought them.

Fortunately, the kids mood got much better as the day wore on.  I think it was just that we had been out so late the night before. We didn't get up particularly early, but still.

Mood Gardens is really a fascinating place.  My favorite is the Rainforest Pyramid.  This is a glass pyramid - well probably plastic but whatever - and it's full of exotic animals and the typical type of things you would see in a real rainforest. It's not a cheap imitation, they really do a great job of it.  It was hot in there, yes, well more like muggy, I made the mistake of spending the day in blue jeans.

Anyway, we spent the whole day there and then ended up at the Rainforest Cafe - I hadn't been in ages. They gave us one of the better seats in the house - not by request it just happened that way - with 2 giant primates making gestures and noises above us and occasionally going off on rants lol.  

After that? Yea, it was getting late enough, it was a long day and we decided to go home and call it a day.  

Today we are spending the whole day at the beach.  The older child was very unhappy with our decision to go to Moody Gardens instead of the beach yesterday - tho he got over it after seeing how much fun the place was - but today? Yea we couldn't do that again and don't want to anyway.  That was a bit of a pricey day yesterday, today is just eat at Denny's and spend the rest of the day at the beach.  We need to get there before the crowds hit - it's Friday and I'm sure there are going to be hoards of people heading over here from Houston if nothing else.  

I'll tell ya, if I lived anywhere near here, I would definitely want to do an Air BNB house as well.  Any destination spot is a cash cow.  And the beach is definitely a destination spot.  I know, I'm always thinking about ways to make some money, but hey, it's part of life. I'm not obsessed with money, I'm just wanting to get retirement set up . 

Speaking of that, the pedestals and the power, water and sewer lines are all in.  The septic system - not yet and apparently the contractor wants paid for this portion of the project before moving on to the next.  Ok. I get it, make sure you aren't doing the work for nothing, a lot of construction projects are "pay as you go" stuff. Contractors have to pay their employees, etc.  But, I'm not there and told him I would be back Monday.  "Have fun!".  Yes, we are!

My SUV? I took it to another shop before we left.  This dude at the other place was really playing me on and I was tired of it and very tired of driving a very hot vehicle.  I normally get into my SUV to cool down, not heat up.  Driving to or from work when it's in the heat of the day has gotten very old.  I can do it, especially with a nice big cup of ice water, yes, but it's certainly not my first choice. 

That's about it for now.  The animules are being watched by some of their friends that live in town, Addler is being well taken care of. I'm sure he's not happy we are gone for 4 days but oh well.  At least they'll show him some attention when they show up.

Time for Denny's and then the beach.

G'day