Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Galveston

Hotel Galvez
The Hotel Galvez was known as the "Queen of the Gulf" on the day she opened in 1911. For nearly a century, this charming hotel has been the choice of guests as demanding and diverse as Teddy Roosevelt, Howard Hughes, Frank Sinatra and the Shultz family.


A Day at the Beach
Tyler spent most of the day digging a hole while Greerson dug a canal from the hole to the ocean to fill it up. The rest of us lounged in the sun and watched the physics lesson in progress.




Moody Gardens - Aquarium
Moody Gardens - Rainforest

1877 Elissa
As one of only three pre-20th-century tall ships in the United States that has been restored to full sailing capacity, Elissa has already been declared a National Historic Landmark and one of America's Treasures by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Built in Scotland in 1877, Elissa was a rusting hulk when she was rescued from a Greek scrap yard by the Galveston Historical Foundation in 1974. The foundation purchased the ship in 1975 and restored her over the course of eight years and at a cost of nearly $7 million, bringing a vital link to Galveston's maritime past back to life.