My Family Travels...: Galveston, Texas

Welcome! Mabuhay!

...travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~ St. Augustine

Traveling to places near and far is both exciting and enlightening. Travel may be close by, within a region, or globally. Visiting a bordering city or island in where you live could give you a fresh new perspective in life. Though, we don’t really need to go so far out to enjoy ourselves and find beauty, because it is all around us… if you open your eyes, stop and smell the roses... you will get that sense of freedom. However if you are a world traveler, it opens up for a much wider point of view. How I wish someday, I will get to do that. Visiting another country and seeing how other people live and discovering their culture provides us with new understanding that we are all different and unique in our own ways, though we are all human… living and breathing on the same amazing planet, Earth…

Enjoy, travel and live life to the fullest!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Galveston, Texas

Gone for the weekend!

My family squeezed in a last summer getaway,

before my daughter starts school in the Fall.

Destination, Galveston, Texas!

It's only a few hours drive from our house.

There was no traffic, since we drove there in the weekend.

We have heard of Galveston many times before moving to Texas,

however we never got the chance to actually fly there.

Now that we live close by, it's our chance!

Of course, we were not disappointed!

A beautiful beach community on the Gulf of Mexico.

as we drove by Houston, on our way to Galveston...

here we are!

sunny, breezy and getting ready to have some fun in the sun!

digging for clams :)

loving the sun!

after drying up in our hotel,

we drove around to check out the neighborhood...

wow! a lot of interesting historical buildings...

this one is the moody mansion

"Restored to its turn of the century splendor, the 28,000 square-foot, four-story structure was completed in 1895. Today, our guests visit 20 rooms on a tour that depicts the home life of a powerful Texas family. The Moodys established one of the great American financial empires. Based on cotton, it grew to include banking, ranching, insurance and hotels.
W.L Moody Jr. bought the home from the heirs of the original owners soon after the great hurricane of 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Moody and their four children celebrated the first of more than eighty Christmas seasons in the house in December of that year. The house remained home for Moody family members until 1986. Today, its rooms are filled with the furnishings and personal effects of the family.
The philanthropic legacy of the Moody family of Galveston is carried on today by the Moody Foundation and the Mary Moody Northen Endowment. Both charitable foundations are major forces in health care, education, historic preservation, and the arts. The Moody Foundation has developed spectacular Moody Gardens on the west end of the city. Learn more about this Galveston Treasure at www.moodygardens.com."

~excerpt from the Moody Mansion website