Back from Vacation

We had so much fun...the kiddos were very well behaved the entire time. I could hardly believe my eyes. We drove the morning of the 5th of July and headed to San Antonio. We took our time so it took about 10 hours to get to Blanco where we were going to stay. Which Blanco is about 45 minutes from San Antonio. We stayed with a couple of friends at their house in Blanco and drove each morning to San Antonio to do our running around.

We left early Friday morning and ate a wonderful breakfast at Sunset Cafe in Blanco. We headed for Sea World after that. We all rode rides...which I was shocked that they had so many roller coasters at Sea World.

We saw Shamu and sat in the splash zone. I was kind of scared of that...the water was 53 degrees. After sweating our butts off we thought it was a good idea but after the first splash we quickly changed our minds. We stayed in the splash zone but was seriously drenched by the time we walked out of there. We were there for about 5 hours when it started raining buckets. We walked around in the pouring rain with no umbrella, poncho, or towel...the kids thought we were nuts. We didn't really want to leave just yet since we had so much more to see. It turned out that they were giving out rain checks. So....we got one! Before we left we had to have souvenirs. We got the boys pouka (sp) shell necklaces and Kaylie got a shamu hat since she was calling shamu "her whale".

We left early Saturday morning and headed for the Alamo/River Walk. We had such a hard time finding a parking spot. Once we got on the Alamo grounds we were in awe with how beautiful that place is. We got some great pics. We got some really nice coins for the boys from the Alamo. Taylor is so proud of his. He has wanted to go to the Alamo for so long. We walked across the street to the riverwalk. We walked all over and stopped and got some drinks. It's awesome when you can walk all over the riverwalk with beer. So not used to that. We we finished up there we headed back to Sea World to finish what we didn't get to the first day. We stayed for about 6 hours (until they closed)!

Next we hit the big Quarry Market 16 to take the kiddos to see "Transformers"....it was an awesome movie...by the time we got home it was 3 AM and had to get up the next day to head home...so sad!

Sunday we left for home and we were all glad we got the time to go on vacation and spend it together as a family. We needed it bad. We were all exhausted but decided to stop at my mom and dad's in Ardmore for a bit of rest before we hit the last hour and a half home. My mom and dad took us out to dinner and we left for home!

All I know is that next year we will go to another great place and enjoy the time we get to spend as family...