Our Summer Vacation trip was to NASA and then to spend a few days on the beach.

We had spent the weekend with our cousins in Houston, celebrating Grandma McKneely's birthday and then Monday morning we were off to NASA.

Our first tram opportunity was rained out, but we got on the second one.  We really enjoyed seeing the Houston Command Center

We left to go to Whataburger offsite for lunch

Touching a moon rock

When we were done we went to a crazy busy Walmart to get groceries and stuff because our beach house was on an island and there is limited shopping there.  It was a Walmart in Galveston right on the shore and it was crazy busy!

To get to our beach house we had to cross by ferry.  This was fun.  We drove our van onto the boat and then the boat carried us across the bay.  What was a highlight, especially for Lindsey was seeing real dolphins in the bay jumping out of the water as we went across.

Tuesday morning dawned and it was raining.  So the kids played a game of Sorry! and we hit the beach in the afternoon.  We have a private beach area just a short walk from the house we're renting.

One cool feature of the house we're staying at is that it has this cool outdoor shower that allows us to shower everyone off completely before going back inside.

We tried to go out to dinner this night, we found a not so nice, smoky restaurant called the Tiki Room and we survived but it wasn't awesome.  

Then we went home and watched "America's Got Talent".

Wednesday morning dawned and we had donuts and kolaches from the local shop--yum! and then we went to the beach for a few more hours.  We even saw a shell that still had the crab inside it!