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Lions, and Lizards, and Bears..Oh My....

I interrupt the musings of my surrender (which by the way... I was informed GOOD Army wives do not surrender, Sorry Husband) to write about the cutest thing,....

I went to pick Jacob up at school today, and he was soooo excited to share with me something in his back pack,.... A REAL LIVE BABY LIZARD....
How did he get the cute baby lizard into his pocket without his teachers, being wise to his actions, well he put him in his pocket...of course....ONLY in Louisiana can my 4 year old smuggle a baby lizard home!!! We did put the very cute (somewhat terrified) lizard back outside, so he could be with his family!!!

Surrender

It is clear that I am not doing a great job at being a blogger, so here is my white flag! and I think I have come to a conclusion, I believe I am going to give up on trying to blog about our vacation, please know it was an awesome vacation! Perhaps, I will get back to the vacation, however that is not the focus now, and the other thing I think I have discovered, I wanted to blog for the readers of my blog, not for me. That is where I have changed my focus, you are welcome to read along, but I truly want to have a year of reflection, focus and determination, and my relationship with our Lord and Savior and how I can draw closer to God, as He sooo wants me to!

Vacation Day 4

The first picture is our cruise director Jen, who was sooo cool!!! The next 4-5 pics are me playing with the new camera on the Lido deck!! and did you see that dedicated healthy guy I have, he spent time at the gym on the ship while on vacation, I sooo would have happily skipped that part, but I did not, I spent time on the treadmill, elliptical, and bike!! (he was much sweatier that me, he worked harder!)

Vacation 3

Seems I can't sit my behind down long enough to add the remaining things to the vacation blog, like perhaps day 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7. Why is that? I wonder, I am stuck in the answer being somewhere between, sheer laziness and way toooo much stuff on my plate, but considering I have a TON of other stuff I want to be blogging about! so I am going to plan to re-cap the vacation, which I really also want to do, I mean come on after 8 years of fabulous marriage, my man and I were able to escape CHILDLESS for 10 days, solo by ourselves, no one wanting for anything, noone complaining that they don't want that for dinner. All by ourselves, no kids, no homework, no cell phones, no email, no internet, just US.... let me just say is was a wonderful 10 days, as much as I love my family it was a BLAST!!! And, I would not want to have spent it with anyone other than my beloved!!!
I just realized that by only posting to day 2 of the vacation, I haven't even boarded the ship, or it is a boat yet, so here goes day 3, we were already in Galveston, so took the shuttle to the ship, at about 0900, and then waited, and waited and waited a bit more in the what seemed like forever line.... I can remember there was a single guy a few places ahead of us in line, with his garmet bags (tuxes), and yes I said BAGS.... Lee and I both looked at each other happy we were not in that category of "formal night" dressing, don't get me wrong we dressed EVERY night and especially on formal night, but there was no ball gown wearing for me and no tuxes for him, but enough of formal night, if I ever get those pictures blogged well then you can see them. So, finally we get on the ship, it seems a bit surreal, definitely dream like. We were not able to go to our stateroom yet, because they were not ready, but we were able to go have lunch, which was NOT soup and sandwiches, however I bet if that is what you wanted then, you probably could have!!

Vacation Day 2

Day 2
Most people who are off on vacation have taken the time to make reservations, and perhaps get directions to where they are going.... most people are NOT the Perez' or at least not the female (me) part of the Perez', however as much as my guy wishes I would plan our outtings a bit better, I think he likes the spontaneity and excitement that comes with our adventures.
So, we are off to Galveston Tx, a tourist type town on a Saturday, running the risk of sleeping in our van as we wait to boat our "Fun Ship" on Sunday, well, God sure loves us and continues to bless us, I began calling around hotels, that I found on the GPS on Lee's phone, and Moody Gardens was IT!! We did have some other choices, BUT, we did not want to park our car at the cruise ship terminal, we were not sure just how secure it really is, and well Moody Garden's won, they offered a GREAT room, with cruise ship parking, and a shuttle to the terminal, and BACK!!! oh, and the car parking was VALET....WOW, that was exciting, I asked out Valet guy, who I think was David, if he could infact drive a stick, cus our car is a standard (yes they still make them)
And, the blessings just continued to FLOW..... as we are handing over the keys to the valet we ran into a co-worker of my husbands who was hosting a marriage retreat there at Moody Gardens, and had extra tickets to the attractions, don't you know I was sooo excited, Lee on the other hand knew that any hopes of a nap he had were quickly out the window!! We visited EVERYTHING there was to visit.... actually we did miss the aquarium, however, we visited the Rainforest Pyramid, which was very cool.
Here is the funny part about our visit to Moody Gardens, or at least I thought it was funny, We visited the Titanic display, which featured artifacts from the Titanic, and ended the evening with an IMAX movie called Titanica, what a blast to view the Titanic exhibit and then the movie, the night before we leave to board our own cruise ship, however I don't think anyone is naive enough anymore to say that the ship is "unsinkable". I was quite amused with the fact that that was how we spent our evening!

Vacation

And the vacation begins....Room 407 at the Holiday Inn in Beaumont Tx, a 4 hourish trip to Galveston turned into a 2 day travel, which was ok, we were happily on vacation, and ready to begin, but did you know that if you stay at a Holiday Inn express they feed you a continental breakfast AND you pay less for your room than at a regular Holiday Inn, but even with no breakfast it was ok, we were on our way to a great vacation! The room had a GREAT KING size bed, I think I want one at home!!
so, with the promise of finding a Starbucks in the morning we were set, and check out wasn't until
Noon!!!