A Perfect Day

Hey everyone! Yesterday we had a fun family day! We woke up early and headed out to the Space Center Houston, where the kids played around and we looked at some exhibits for a few hours. Then we grabbed a quick lunch at McDonald's and drove down to Galveston Island (which was about an hour from the Space Center). Once we got there we went to Moody Gardens. At Moody Gardens we saw an interesting show called The Wild Ocean (no joke; it was about sardines! LOL.) and we explored around the Aquarium pyramid (Kenzie's favorite; she loves fish and penguins and seals and pretty much anything with water). Afterwards, we went walking down the beach for about 20 minutes. Kylie and Keaton enjoyed collecting sea shells and "accidentally" falling in the water. (Mom had gone against bringing swimsuits because it was pretty stormy when we left the house and on our way there.) It was Kenzie's 1st trip to the beach and she had a blast trying to run from the waves coming onto the beach, playing around in the sand and picking up sea shells. Since it was getting kinda boring standing on the "beach" (I don't really know if I would consider Galveston a beach because the water and sand is pretty disgusting) for a while with the water right in front of you (no matter how gross) and not being able to go in it or really do anything, we decided to leave and go and pick up Dad. (Where was Dad, you might ask? Well, remember earlier I told you that he was at our church's staff retreat since he's on the staff there now and so they had taken the church van down there and we decided to go pick him up at the beach house where he was staying.) The house was really cool and it looked like a boat. We ended up having dinner with everyone else ("everyone else" concluded with our Pastor, his wife, our Co-Pastor, his wife, his 2 sons, our youth pastor, our music minister, and his wife, his son, our friendship pastor, his wife, Mrs. Paula, her son Roy, and then our family of 6. Whoa....) So it was all one big party; the perfect end to a perfect day!