Ryan and I celebrated our 30th birthday at the Moody Gardens Resort on Galveston Island.
Friday
Friday, we dropped off Arden at Ryan's parents and headed down to settle into our hotel.
Here is the grounds of Moody Gardens. It was huge...
The lobby had a gingerbread mansion made from 25lbs. of gingerbread and 20lbs. of frosting. So pretty!
After checking into the hotel, we walked over to the Aquarium. We saw every kind of sea creature you can imagine. We enjoyed watching the sharks a blind seal follow another as they spiraled through the water.
We walked through the 1 mile Festival of Lights. It was chilly!
Ryan and I had a wonderful dinner at Rudy and Paco's! It is the nicest restaurant and best food in Galveston. It was definitely first class!
Saturday:
Ryan really wanted to check out Schlitterbahn, which is an indoor heated water park. We rode most of the slides, rode in the lazy river, and warmed up in the hot-tub with a swim up bar.
Saturday afternoon, we went ice skating. Ryan was pretty good!
Then we went shopping on the Galveston Strand
Back at Moody Gardens, we watched The Polar Express in 4D
To end the evening, we went to Willy G's on Pier 21
Sunday
We finished off our trip by touring the Rainforest Pyramid. This was my favorite part of the whole trip! It was unbelievable how the animals were all out in the open walking around you! Totally amazing!!
Butterfly Exhibit
This crazy monkey was running up and down the railing right next to us!
A Chocolate Tree!
More crazy monkeys!
Too bad the Texans lost. . .otherwise it would have been a perfect weekend!
