Girls Trip '10

Howdy folks. Grace and I had our first annual Girls Trip a few weeks ago. We went to San Antonio (we thought we'd better start out small) for the weekend and we had a blast! We stayed at a great hotel, ate good food and had lots of fun. We did all the fun things in San Antone that there is to do - The picture above was the river boat ride. We started the day out by trying to eat breakfast on our "porch" in front of our room. I went back inside to get the camera out of our air-conditioned room and this is what happened when I tried to take a picture. It was just a little hot and humid!

We went to the Alamo that was almost deserted compared to how it usually is! We almost had the place to ourselves.

We walked along the River Walk and had a great lunch. Just in case you forget you were in TX, there are flags everywhere to remind you (not unique to SA). I love Texas pride.

Grace and her new armadillo (she got one for Collin too):

I researched hotels in SA that were kid friendly and found a gem of a hotel. It looks like cabins surrounding a playground and a SWEET pool. I thought by the pictures on the internet that the pool couldn't be as big as it looked, but you know what they say, Everything is bigger in TX and this pool was huge! It had one end that was 1 foot and another end that was a hot tub and the middle was huge. Grace could have spent the whole day in here. It was also great because after around 8:30 pm, it was quiet because all the kids were in bed.

The next day we braved the record-setting heat and went to Sea World.

Our favorite part was the Shamu show. Ok, it's really called something like Believe, but we all know the main attraction is Shamu!! And she had a baby with her this time. It was so cute.

We got there almost an hour early and got front row seats . . .

And GREAT views!!

We also did get a little wet, but not too bad because we sat in front of the performing platform.

Very seriously cooling off with some Dippin' Dots:

Enjoying one of the other shows.

We had a great time. Grace was so fun to travel with! She eats what I eat, we like to go to bed early and get up early. We like the same things on TV etc. I can't wait for our trip next year!