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There is a bath house and a small cultural center with paintings and sculptures. It is quite interesting that the lake area is managed by a volunteer group of local citizens.

We stayed at a wonderful resort called the South Shore Harbor Resort, in League City, for the first two nights and then went on to Galveston to finish the vacation part of our trip. The South Shore Harbor Resort is in League City which is only about 20 minutes from Galveston. It was a fantastic place to stay.

It is located right on a harbor, so when you look out of the windows you see the marina with all of the sailboats docked. The outside of the facility is landscaped to perfection, with beautiful palms, banana trees and huge asparagus ferns everywhere you look.

The outdoor pool is huge and has a swim-up bar, with plenty of deck chairs and umbrellas positioned around the pool. While we were there, every day, a duck and a duckling came over to the pool from the marina across the parking lot and swam in the pool for a few hours.

The amenities at the resort are what you would expect – gym, high-speed wireless internet access, very nice restaurants. I’d highly recommend it as a place to stay.

League City itself is a really great place, too. It has very clean and well laid out streets with tons of shops and top notch restaurants in the area.

Other small cities, like Kemah and San Leon, are within 10 or 15 minutes’ drive on the un-crowded streets. Kemah is well known for its shopping boardwalk and the Topwater Grill is located in San Leon.

At the Topwater Grill, I had a chili-ed redfish that was out of this world. While we waited for dinner to come to the table, we looked out the large windows onto the harbor and watched lines of pelicans diving into the ocean. There was also a man cleaning fish, swarmed by seagulls every time he threw some fish pieces into the water.

As we left the restaurant, I noticed that there was a large ice chest in the front, from which that same man was removing large redfish and taking them outside to clean – so I may very well have watched the man clean the fish that I ate shortly afterwards.

On the final day of our trip we went to Galveston and did some obligatory shopping downtown. It is a beautiful place, full of historical buildings.

Most of the large oak trees in the downtown area were killed by the influx of salt water during Hurricane Ike in 2008, so the City is now in the process of planting large palms along the streets. We went to the ocean for a dip, and then went over to Moody Gardens to spend a day.

Moody Gardens is a great place to take your family. They have a huge waterpark that your kids will love, and several large displays inside huge glass pyramids. One is a tropical rainforest setting, and the plants and birds inside will simply amaze you. They are exceptionally beautiful and colorful.

Another pyramid holds their huge aquarium, which is another must-see attraction. And on top of that, they also feature an Imax and something they call “4-D,” which is a 3-D movie that has moving, vibrating chairs, puffs of air and spritzes of water which go along with the movie you are watching. It’s all very cool, and kids love it.

In the early 1950’s she was commissioned again and served her country well as both an anti-submarine carrier and a training ship in the Atlantic and also in the Mediterranean waters. It is interesting to note that here was another US aircraft carrier with the same name which was lost in the Battle of Coral Sea in 1942.

The building was formerly known at the Texas School Book Depository. A permanent exhibit, called “John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation” covers his life, his death and his legacy as the 35th president of the USA. This exhibit includes hundreds of photographs and artifacts as well as important documentary movie film. This film includes his 1960 presidential campaign.

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