Galveston weekend

[KMS]

I just realized a few minutes ago that I never posted about our weekend in Galveston. Galveston is a little island on the coast of Texas. We hadn't done much all summer and were both starting school and I was starting my new job that Monday. There was a Titanic exhibit leaving September 6 so we wanted to catch it before it left. (I'm a Titanic enthusiast, yes even before Leo was in the movie! LOL)

Well, Chad got off at 11 pm on Friday so we went riding our bikes around the neighborhood for an hour or so, got a veggie dog, etc. We planned on getting up early and heading over to Galveston on Saturday morning. (We never would have done it though. We sleep in!) Wellll, I was so excited and made a comment that I wanted to go now! Chad said, "Okay let's go!" So all of the sudden the two of us rode back home, got some stuff together, and were out of the house at 1 am.

It takes about 45 minutes to get there and we were just chatting the whole time. I was soooo excited that we did something so random and off the wall. When we got into Galveston it was around 2 am and we decided that we didn't even want to bother getting a hotel room so we slept in the truck in the Walmart parking lot!

We planned on waking up early to catch the sunrise on the beach. We woke up, drove the minute it takes to get to the beach, and this is what we see. -

An overcast cloudy morning! Grrr!

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The sun finally came out while we were eating breakfast.

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So we decided to take a morning bike ride to work off our breakfast. We rode 5 miles along the beach. It was heaven!

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[KMS]

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We heart our new bikes, by the way!

Then we went to the Titanic exhibit. It was sombering, touching, emotional, etc. Wow! This was at the entrance.

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It was so cold just touching that with my hand. I just cannot imagine.

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We both got our boarding tickets to enter the exhibit. At the end, it turns out that Chad had died and I lived. He was a 1st class author that had just signed a major book deal and I was a 2nd class woman who was traveling to America with my new wedding dress to meet up with my fiance. It was all so *real*.

Then we went walking around the natural center where the exhibit was housed. Acting like a frog...

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[KMS]

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After this picture I frantically ran away from the bees...

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This is why I love Galeveston so. History, history, history! An old elevator...

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We were obviously missed at home. We walked in to Sully giving plenty of love to Daddy's work shoe.

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[horse345]

I love Galveston! It's been several years now since I have been, but the FH and I will have to go there as a get away sometime next summer! It looks like you had fun...and I love being spontanious on things like that!

[uptowngirl]

That looks like such a fun trip! My family are all huge Titanic buffs since we had family on board! (My great-great grandparents I think...he died, but she made it home - we think she was on Unsinkable Molly Brown's life raft...interesting story!)

[SerendipityCrafts]

Great pics. Another place to add to my wish list :)

[Nekochanpurr]

Ohhh, i went on that titanic thing when they were in detroit! i think we kept making fun of Dani cuz she was a prostitute or something.. XD LOL
So much history!! I'm glad you got to go. It looks like sooooooo much fun! That'd be heaven for me.

[bichonlvr]

Looks like fun fun!

[StarCoveter]

What a neat sounding exhibit! I think it would be very sad to be given a "person", knowing that it really happened. It's sad anyway, but that would make it hit home, you know?

Also, so cool that you guys randomly decided to do that trip at 1a.m.! Kevin and I did that once. We were staying at the dorms at college, and it was some sort of break (Thanksgiving, winter, something like that). We were planning on leaving in the morning to drive to my mom's house (a 6.5 hour drive), but we were really awake and had a lot of energy, so we left at around 2 in the morning. A couple hours into the drive, though, and we were pooped! We got to my mom's early, and went straight to the bedroom for a nap!

[caligal85]

I have now added Galveston to my list of places to visit. I love history! We had a similar Titanic exhibit here last year but we weren't able to make it. Right now it's the Human Bodies Exhibit that I'm dying to take my parents too.

[firespirit]

I've been to that exhibit too (or at least one similar to it), I think when it was in Chicago.

Galeveston looks really neat. I love the elevator!

[Nekochanpurr]

I have now added Galveston to my list of places to visit. I love history! We had a similar Titanic exhibit here last year but we weren't able to make it. Right now it's the Human Bodies Exhibit that I'm dying to take my parents too.

I was so sad i missed the human bodies one!!!

[saltyveruca]

Keely, I bet you're really glad now that you went!

JD and I visited a family friend's beach house in August...it's sustained a lot of damage. Their bottom floor is wasted and the boat we went out on can't even be found now. They lost a beautiful sailboat as well.

I am so, so sad that the Balinese Room is gone. I've always wanted to see it.

[candars]

Then we went to the Titanic exhibit. It was sombering, touching, emotional, etc. Wow! This was at the entrance.

It was so cold just touching that with my hand. I just cannot imagine.

We both got our boarding tickets to enter the exhibit. At the end, it turns out that Chad had died and I lived. He was a 1st class author that had just signed a major book deal and I was a 2nd class woman who was traveling to America with my new wedding dress to meet up with my fiance. It was all so *real*.


The Titanic exhibit was amazing! We saw it on our honeymoon in Vegas. The funny thing is your visit sounds almost exactly like ours! I was 2nd class and he was first. I don't remember the details, but I know that he ended up dyeing and I lived, just like you two! lol