Turkey Day

Two posts in one day... where did I find the time?! Madison isn't feeling well, so she is downstairs watching a movie and Brady is making me sit with him while he watches a movie upstairs, so I have a minute.
So, Turkey Day as M & B like to call it... we spent Thanksgiving down in Galveston. We stayed at the Moody Gardens Hotel (beautiful hotel!) and had dinner there. Before we checked in,though, we took the ferry over to Bolivar to see the destruction from Hurricane Ike. It was all very sad. The part of the peninsula that we were supposed to stay on is almost completely leveled... not a house still standing. Here are a few pictures:

June 2007 voted the best beach in Texas


This is what Bolivar looks like post-Ike, debris from the destroyed houses on the side of the road for miles

an ice-cream stand gone

buildings just flattened


this house slid off the foundation and the palm tree stopped it

this building is completely hollowed out


someone's house gone

another one destroyed

another one

and another one

even more


and those are the houses that have been destroyed but are at least still standing, so many others, most of them actually are completely gone with just the foundations standing







this one is still standing, but not by much

all the plants that were once green and thriving are brown and most are dead



cars that are abandoned and ruined


this is the gas station

some restaurants



our favorite pizza place

the grocery store and the other gas station

the church

the cemetary- some of the coffins were raised up and came open... very sad

a few more houses


It was sad to see the place that we loved so much destroyed and we can't wait to someday see it cleaned up again. We know that the hurricane has been gone for a while now, but the destruction that Ike left behind took so much away from so many people.Let's hope that the people that are still affected by the storm can soon begin to rebuild their lives.