Our Day in San Antonio

Another day of vacation fun!  Our San Antonio morning began by eating breakfast at the Guenther House, the elegant home of the Pioneer Flour Mills' founding family.  Afterwards, we headed to the Alamo to tour the buildings.  At that point, our Bushwar branch returned to the hotel to eat lunch and rest a bit before heading to the Children's Museum.  The kids had a blast at the museum!  Everything was interactive, including a trolley car and an airplane that the kids can "drive."  We finished the day by meeting up with an old friend of mine from college, John Davis, his lovely wife Becca, and their three darling boys at the coolest restaurant in town, Big'z Burger Joint.  Dallas needs a place like this.  It's basically a huge barn that serves huge burgers and has a huge fenced-in backyard covered in AstroTurf, so the kids can run free and the parents eat and visit with minimal interruption.  Brilliant!

We.Did.Sea.World.

I think we did it.  We arrive at 8:30am, and we left after 9pm.  Over twelve hours of Sea World fun, and I think we saw everything that we wanted to see, did everything that we wanted to do, and had a great day of family fun!

We enjoyed breakfast with the gang from Sesame Street.

We saw lots of sea creatures and fed the dolphins.

We enjoyed five shows, two of them starring Shamu.

We rode almost all of the rides...actually, maybe all of the rides.

Had a blast with cousins staying cool in the scorching San Antonio sun!

And at the end of the day, we carried stinky, happy, sleeping children into the hotel after a long, fun, exciting day at Sea World!

San Antonio or Bust

We're off on our Bushwar-Mikeska-Summer's-Last-Hurrah-San Antonio Adventure and having a blast!  We left around 9 this morning, stopping at Baylor and Mikeska BBQ for lunch, and arrived in San Antonio this afternoon.  This evening we visited the Alamo, took a guided boat tour on the Riverwalk, and had dinner at Casa Rio, the oldest restaurant on the Riverwalk.  Tomorrow we're off to Sea World!