Galveston Day Two-Mardi Gras Parade

On Saturday morning, we had a lovely morning!  Eli and Emmy woke up early and we played in the babies room while Tessa slept in the bathroom and Dora and my mom slept in the other room.  We ate bananas and smiled and laughed.  It was fun!  

Then we had a wonderful breakfast there at the hotel, french toast and eggs, and bacon and toast and so on.  Then the babies went up to the room to rest (Tessa needed a nap) and Eli and Dora and I headed down to the heated hotel pool.  Sadly, it didn't open until 10!! Foiled!  

So we walked across the street and played on the rock wall!  We found live anemones, a dead seagull, barnacles, lots of beautiful granite and quartz, and two colors of algae!  We had a great time until Dora slipped and scratched her poor baby leg.  That was sad.  Dora was cold, so I donated my coat.  It was actually nice within minutes, though, so I didn't miss it.  

 Love what close friends these two are.

 On top of the world!!

 This is a BEAUTIFUL girl!

 Here we are waiting on the parade.  We waited about 30 minutes.  The babies were really entranced once the parade started.

 They threw a lot of candy this year.  It was also a much smaller parade.  Like 45 minutes instead of hours.  Eli was sad, but I will be honest--I was glad it wasn't as much junk or as long as before!! The last thing we need is a bigger pile of beads, but don't try telling the kids that.  Haha. Dora had made this purple plate bead catcher in pre-school.  Kinda cute.

 Emmy got into the waving by the end. Eli was the best though.  He'd go right out and wave and yell!