Dad comes for a visit!

While talking on the phone to Jon Sunday night he reluctantly told me he was coming to visit on Monday. He wanted to make it a surprise, but after hearing about my day, could tell I needed the boost! It was heaven sent. I needed this chance to recharge! We made the most of his 2 full days home! We started off by going to Galveston Tuesday. Our fun started by riding the ferry and seeing dolphins! Then we got to the aquarium. It was PERFECT! There was almost no one there, so we had the place to ourselves. Kate had a blast!

 First up they were feeding the seals when we got there. It was so cool--they had them doing tricks and everything. Talk about perfect timing! We stood there for a good while just enjoying the show!

 Then we roamed around checking it all out. Kate literally ran from tank to tank yelling "Look DAD!", "Come here Dad!" or "Wow Dad! Comere!". Her excitement made the old people there laugh. (it was senior citizen day! They got in for $5. I SO see myself dragging Jon to do stuff like that when we are old and cheap!!)

 They had this passport to sharks thing set up around the aquarium where if you found a certain shark in the exhibit you were supposed to put a stamp on your passport. Kate LOVED putting her stamps in her paper!

 

 Funny kid is a chicken though! She wouldn't reach into the water to touch the star fish. She wanted us to, but she refused.











In the shark cage. Kate thought it was really fun to climb in. Must take after her dad...

 Silly hats in the gift shop. Kate ended up breaking the one she has on in the shot so she got one by default.













Next Kate requested that we go to the beach. It was supposed to rain all day and was windy, so we didn't get to stay very long. But we were there long enough to have a good time. Here is how Abby spent her first trip to the beach. She's a regular beach bum! (ps, Kate will now grab her bum and sad "Look I a beach bum!") And it wasn't cold so don't think I was letting Abby freeze!!

  Kate decided part of the way through our trip that the water was scary. She would run out to it and when the waves came in she would cling to our legs and try to climb away. Silly kid! I got wet up to my knees trying to outrun the waves.