Palm Beach

One of the fun prizes at the Houston Public Library Summer Reading Program was free tickets to Moody Garden's Palm Beach down in Galveston. We wanted to take another trip to the beach before school started, and we'd never been there before, so we thought we'd check it out for free. So Thursday we packed up the car & had a fun family day at Palm Beach.




I checked it out briefly online before we went & saw they had white sand, free umbrellas & chairs and some fun stuff for little kids. Unfortunately, it wasn't really on the beach so the only water to really splash in was a pool, which was still fun (just not the beach some peeps in our family were really looking forward to). But soon everyone was have a blast.



They have this area with 2 small water slides. Luke was delirious with laughter, loving to go down the slides. Everyone had fun on the slides, teaming up and going down together in groups, as well as separately.

In the same area there were also all these things you can push to spray people with water. Michael, Trevor & Jake had a blast ambushing the innocent bystanders. Michael was such a good sport, and would let other small kids catch him "unsuspectingly" and get him slopping wet, and they would just laugh so hard.

While the 3 Amigos were busy terrorizing small children, Hayley and Luke were having fun in the sand.

We got a good rainstorm while we were there, mainly while I was burying Jake in the sand. It didn't last long but the rain felt good and cooled things off a few degrees.

We tried to take a picture of all the kids before we left for the day, but Luke was pretty tired by that point and wanted nothing to do with the picture business. So here is one of the funnier ones as we gave up trying to get everyone smiling.

Despite what the last picture looks like, we really did have a great time and loved spending the day together to celebrate the end of summer.

And what says summer best than driving thru Sonic on the way home during Happy Hour and getting 1/2 price slushes for everyone.

Good times!!<>