Monday - April 2 - Today was a funny day for weather, it was quit foggy all day but late this afternoon it cleared off in town and was actually sunny and hot but as soon as we started to head back home we ran into the fog again. I guess we are lucky that it isn’t rain!!

Today we thought we would go to Moody Gardens, it is a park with a pyramid rainforest, aquarium, discovery centre, an I-Max theatre, plus, plus. When we got there we found out that it is $45 for a pass for all the exhibits, just a tad expensive, so we decided just to do the aquarium. It was a nice one but one exhibit they had that we have never seen before was penguins, there were three different kinds - the king penguin which is very large, the chinstrap and the rockhopper and they were fascinating, we spent a long time watching them and could have spent a lot longer. It’s interesting to watch them swim then either jump or fly out of the water - depending on where they are going on land. I was watching a couple of penguins and I swear they were having a conversation, their mouths were going a mile a minute at each other. There was another pair who appeared to be having a fight, they flew into the water and just roared around, jumping and diving with the one chasing the other the whole time. Needless to say they provided excellent entertainment. .

After that we found where the ferry is that we have to take to get over to the road to Louisiana, the ferries are very large and I couldn’t believe how many vehicles they hold. The ones we watched had a real mix of RV’s, transport trucks, cars and pickups. Guess we won’t have any trouble with the Airstream on it.

We then went to the historic district (The Strand) and there were a couple of things we wanted to do but we couldn’t find any parking so we left and headed home. We found a Krogers so stopped and got a couple of things then stopped at Wal Mart and got the rest of our groceries. When we got back we stopped at the office and paid for another night so we are now here until Wednesday.