When you walk into the pyramid it's literally like you've walked into the rainforest. Beautiful plants, trees, and flowers, birds, butterflies, monkeys... Well, we hadn't seen any monkeys yet, but stay tuned... :-)
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| See the red bird over there? |
Marc was momentarily distracted by wrestling with this caution sign.
Then he spotted a butterfly!
Look at the trunk of the tree and you can barely see the little weird colored squirrel. Probably should have gotten a picture explaining what type of animal it is!
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| She still struggles with smiling on demand! |
Just as we were about to walk through the fog, there was a bit of commotion behind me...
A White-faced Saki was just chillin on the post! See him?
Emme walked right up to him, I had to tell her to move slowly!
As soon as I snapped this picture he jumped down right in front of Emmery and ran across the path to the other side! It was so cool to be that close to these animals!
Hello porcupine!
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Watch your toes Emmery!
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| "Hey little gator!' |
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| Interesting leaves |
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| Some more cool leaves |
Marc was just dying to jump in the water...
Why is he crying? We wouldn't let him swim.
Huge snake, can't remember what kind.
Emmery the Frog!
After Moody Gardens we drove along the beachfront for a while, looking for somewhere to eat lunch. When we couldn't decide I did a quick Yelp search and found a great little place. Unfortunately a storm had rolled in and we all got soaked trying to get into the restaurant. Turns out it was a tiny place and there was no room for us. So we all got completely soaked AGAIN getting back into the car! When we found the next restaurant, the rain had finally subsided. It turns out it was a blessing in disguise. The restaurant was on Galveston Bay, right near the docks. So we got to see some shrimping boats in action!
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| Stowaway crab! |
No, it wasn't raining. But seagulls were flying everywhere and Jule and I were so paranoid we were going to get pooped on!
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| Emmery decided to bust out a few push-ups! |
Watching the ships come in!
If you look between these two boats you can see the building with the back open to the water. We realized they were selling the shrimp there so we had to walk over!
My dad decided he had to get some shrimp. So while he shopped the kids gave this big fish some love!
Pulled right from the Gulf this morning. Doesn't get much fresher than that!!
Heading back to the car, Emmery just had to stop and splash in the puddle.
Such a long day, both kids would be fast asleep on the drive home, right?
Nope. Marc played the whole time!
