Waffles and WalMart and Ferries, Oh My!

Yesterday was a long day with endless driving (it seemed) to see a few cool things.
We got up yesterday morning and went into Galveston. We stopped for a very loud but good breakfast at the Waffle House. Then we just headed North up the coast. Galveston was cool because we were on "Seawall Drive" which is just what it sounds like - a road that drives right along the sea wall. There were all kinds of hotels, places to eat, and tourist gift shop type things. We decided to hit one of those early, so we went in to the first one on our side of the road. It was CRAZY packed, and had Colton not found the "most awesome shark necklace in the whole world" (and it was pretty cool), we would have skipped it and ran. But now we've got to stand in line to check out, literally for 30 minutes, so might as well get a shirt or two, too.
We left there and headed for the ferry. Of course you wait forever in line to get ON a ferry, but last year we got to see dolphins from the other ferry so we were excited to test our luck this year. This year's ferry was a much longer ride across an international port with the big boats. One, very quickly for a big boat, crossed our path, so that made for some fun in his wake! Boy did we rock! We did get to see a few dolphins - they're quick out of the water and back in. You just have to look for the fin!
After the ferry ride, unless you turn around and get back ON the ferry, there wasn't much to do or see unless you went ALLLLLLLL the way around and through Houston to come back down to Galveston. We did stop and have lunch on a beach through there, but other than that, it was a long ride and Colton and I slept most of it.
Came back to Galveston Island and hit the WalMart. They have their own touristy section, so we hit that too. Bought another t-shirt and Colton got his boogie board. Then back to the beach! We went out and Colton got to test his board and goggles until the sun set. I used up my entire memory card in my camera taking pictures of him. Then he and I walked down the beach looking for shells. It was great! Back to the tent for a movie and bed.