Moody Gardens Palm Beach & The Science Museum

We had a busy weekend! I wanted to take advantage of a plan free weekend and do some fun things as a family, especially with the school year fast approaching. During the week there are so many things I do with the kids that I wish Kris could be a part of. It was nice for him to be able to join us.

Saturday we headed to Moody Gardens and spent the afternoon at the water park attraction called Palm Beach. I had been hearing a lot about it and it sounded like fun. We met our friends Rob and Andrea and their little girl down there. The water park had a lazy river, wave pool, splash pad and water slides. We snacked in the white sand under an umbrella while the kids built sand castles. One thing I liked was the view of the bay from the water park. Very scenic.



When we left there, we went to the strand for an early dinner, window shopping and of course dessert! There was also a live band that we stopped and listened to for a bit. It was a really fun day and we were exhausted by the end of it.



Sunday we went out to one of our favorite places for lunch and then headed to the museum district. We went mainly to see an IMAX film at the Houston Museum of Natural Science but figured we might as well get the whole museum experience while we were there. Funny story behind that actually.

I googled 'IMAX Houston' and went onto a natural science museum website that it gave me in the search results. It was advertising a tornado IMAX feature which I was so excited about b/c Hayden loves watching the show Storm Chasers and is enthralled by all things weather. It was going to be the perfect show for us!



When we got to the museum Kris went to buy our tickets and told them we wanted to see the tornado feature. He thought it was odd when they gave him tickets to the planeterium and not the IMAX but he figured that must have been what I'd seen on the website. So after touring the museum we went to our show and it was the most boring 30 minutes of our lives. It was a major disappointment.

Kris said the lady told him that was the only show they had playing with tornados in it. Perplexed (and very bummed about not seeing an IMAX like we intended) I got back on the internet when we got home to find the show I'd originally seen. It turns out I was on the website of the scienece museum in New York, NY. Very cool looking museum by the way! It had me excited that morning about going! :)



I can be an airhead sometimes, what can I say? But, we are defnitely going to go back to see an actual IMAX. There was a shark one advertised that we think Hayden will like since he loves sharks, too!

We did enjoy the museum though and had yet another nice day.