Spring Break Fun

On Monday, Zfam loaded up the car and headed to San Antonio. I was a little worried about the 10 hour car ride, but it was surprisingly painless. We stopped a couple of times along the way for potty breaks, necessities (candy, jerky, cokes etc.) and just to stretch our legs. We made it to our hotel around 7pm, which was an hour earlier than we had expected. The girls only watched one DVD and there was no complaining, whining or too many "Are we there yets".

On Tuesday, we headed into town. We happened upon a St. Patrick's Day ceremony at the Alamo. The weather was absolutely perfect...so springy. We found an empty park bench and had our picnic lunch. After lunch, we went down to the River Walk. It was really gorgeous and not too crowded, as I would have expected it to be during Spring Break on St. Patrick's Day.


Wednesday was the big day...Sea World. My best friend from college and her 7 year old daughter drove down from Austin to go with us. Although the girls had not seen each other since they were barely 3, they instantly bonded and acted like best friends. We were at the park when it opened and it's probably a good thing because it was soooo crowded. The Shamu show was standing room only, which disappointed Abigail because she had hoped to sit in the splash zone. Abigail doesn't remember this, but we sat in that area last time we went, 5 years ago, and she did NOT like it. That water is so COLD. We did make it to the dolphin/beluga whale show in time for Abigail and Chloe to snag seats in the splash zone, but I guess dolphins and belugas don't splash as much as great big orkas that have been trained to splash, because they stayed bone dry. I think the highlight for Rebecca was the penguins and for Abigail it would probably be a tie between getting to spend the day with Chole and getting to pet a dolphin.





























Thursday, we packed up to head home, taking a detour through San Marcos so that we could show the girls where Chris and I went to school and so that Chris could meet one of his former professors for lunch. It was yet another beautiful day and I decided it would be fun to take the girls to the river while Chris and Dr. Stutts had lunch. We walked down from Old Main to Sewell Park, played a short game of Pooh sticks off one of the bridges and watched a group of co-eds play sand volleyball. I hadn't thought about the uphill walk back to Old Main, but the girls were troopers despite being over dressed for temps in 80s.

At around 3:00 we got back in the car for the long drive home. This drive wasn't quite as painless as the first, but we made it home around 1:00 am, none too worse for the wear. It was a wonderful family vacation and we are already talking about where we can go this summer. Any ideas?