Galveston Day 3

Day 3 was looking a little rainy, but we headed out to Sea Wolf Park that morning.  They have a retired submarine and destroyer that you can walk through and explore.  Thankfully, they had fans going inside both of them because it was seriously humid.  As we were coming out of the sub, it started to pour down raining.  I wanted to stay in the sub hoping that the rain would let up, but even with the fans, it was getting stuffy.  I put my camera away and braced myself for the rain.  I was pleasantly surprised that it only rained for about five minutes and then stopped.  We went over to tour the destroyer next.  It's hard to believe that people can coexist in such tight quarters as they have on a sub or even a destroyer.  There must have been many short tempers to be in such close proximity to one another for extended periods of time. 

As we were leaving Sea Wolf Park, the rain "came a toad strangler" as my elders used to say.  It was raining so hard because of the tropical storm which by that time was getting close to Galveston.  Fortunately, it let up and only rained off and on the rest of the afternoon.  That was okay because after that I wanted to tour another house anyway, so we were out of the rain.  This day's house was Moody Mansion.  I can not even describe the grandeur of this house.  It is 28,000 square feet.  That's right, there are three zeros in that number.  It was massive.  It was so big that we couldn't even see all of it.  The craftsmanship that went into that house had me awestruck.  It has four stories and was completed in 1895.  I can't believe just one family lived in it.  We weren't allowed to take pictures inside which was a pity because I'd love to be able to look back on them down the road. 

We went to The Strand historic district next to walk around.  It's close to where the cruise ships dock, so there are lots of souvenir shops and restaurants.  Our favorite place was La Kings Confectionary.  It was a little overwhelming for our two sweet-toothed children.  When you walk in, there is candy everywhere.  It's just a huge wall of sugar.  Mia and Quinn didn't know where to go or what to look at first.  I'm surprised they didn't start drooling (or maybe they did and I didn't see it).  They decided to fore-go candy in favor of ice cream.  Mia asked to get some rock candy for later and said she would just take it with her.  Yeah, she ate it too before we left the store.  They loved it!

USS Cavalla submarine 

USS Stewart destroyer

Moody Mansion

La Kings Confectionary

 One last walk on the beach since we were leaving the next morning.  Mia had to write her name and Quinn's in the sand before we left.