Last hurrah at Moody Gardens

We bought Moody Gardens season passes last year and they were about to expire so we went one last time and did as much as we could. We visited the butterfly exhibit, rainforest, aquarium, and saw Happy Feet in Imax 4D. Moody Gardens is a great deal if you have season passes- if you don't, it's expensive! We enjoyed getting to see the aquarium several times this past year and seeing several of their specialty exhibits like the butterfly exhibit and the dinosaur exhibit. We decided we may get passes again in a few years when/if the girls like the Imax movies. Autumn did much better with this last show that we saw but last year both of the girls were either scared or didn't want to wear the glasses because they don't really fit their faces. Corry & I said all year long that we were going to try to go by ourselves and see several of the Imax shows- but that didn't really happen!

At the butterfly exhibit...

I love this picture...Shelby was upset because she wanted to go first but it looks like she's crying because she's about to be eaten!

Seconds later you can't even tell she was just upset!

This is them as a butterfly cocoon by the way...

Spiders climbing their web (in hindsight, shouldn't have let Autumn climb since she still has a brace on her arm).


Butterfly zipline

We were savvy enough to tell Autumn to use her good arm on this...

And switch...

Butterfly rubbings...

This poor little butterfly didn't look like it had too much longer so we let the girls let it fly onto their fingers.

A tree of cocoons

Outside the rainforest

We were there during a thunderstorm...

That's a lot of turtles on one log.

The end of the day at the aquarium in the shark cage.