So we left Houston around 10 am, and since it was a Saturday morning,we basically had no traffic. The ride was quick (and boring), but did pass through Weimar Texas, which for those of you who don't know is extremely close to my maiden name (Weimer). We found out driving through this part of Texas and through our riverwalk guide that San Antonio has a lot of German heritage (.....ah, my people!):
Okay, these pictures don't do this truck stop justice, but it was the hugest and BUSIEST stop I have ever been too. Evidently this is where everyone stops before they get to San Antonio. There wasn't much for quite a while and we all had to go to the bathroom and Mark needed to get gas.... well so does everyone else in the tri-county area.
Inside of this truck stop was like a mad house. I wish you could tell how gigantic and busy it was. It was called Bucky's or something and the mascot was a beaver. Didn't realize how popular it was until we saw beaver t-shirts in San Antonio. Crazy!
We got to San Antonio around 1:30 or so. Our hotel is basically right behind the Alamo, and we would pass through it to get to the downtown / riverwalk area. We just walked around the Alamo this day, and didn't get the full tour until Sunday. I didn't realize how many other things there were to see on the grounds:
This gigantic line would come and go during the day. Sunday morning (which I will get to in the next blog) we walked right in.
The first thing we really did was the Children's Museum. It was very much like the one in New Orleans. Here Emma is making slime:
Here Katie and Emma are actually driving a front end loader. Very neat. They actually picked up rocks and dumped them in a container:
They also had the grocery store thing like in New Orleans. This is the girls favorite and they actually fought over using the cash register. We had to drag them away from this:
We walked down on the riverwalk area (kind of by accident) a little bit. We did more of that, including the river cruise Sunday:
Lastly, we toured the Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum. Very touristy, I know, but we never do these things other places, so what the heck! Mark's favorite part was the singing couple below (they were wax, in case you can't tell) They would put pop songs on like "Boom Boom Pow by the black eyes peas and such - pretty funny acutally:
This was some crazy walk through thing with lights that made you feel, well, drunk basically. Katie was not real cool about walking throught it, but here are Mark and Emma:
Finally, we took a dip in the pool when we got back to the hotel. It was packed, but the girls didn't care. We actually got the whole pool to ourselves this afternoon, but I'll get to that later.
I'm kinda doing this a day behind. I'll try and post what we did today, tomorrow (get it). I may have to do a combo post. We are headed off to Sea World early tomorrow, so I need to get to sleep. Adios!
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