San Antonio

Friday we did our normal YMCA workout and ballet class then hurried home to get everything packed up for our San Antonio trip.  It was really really nice that Jonathan slept the entire time I was getting things ready and I was even out the door on time.  Pretty impressive considering I had zero help...and pretty annoying to turn around and find mess after mess to clean up.  The clincher was when I asked the kids to put the bowl from the kitchen table into the sink.  They told me it was empty and put it in the sink. Well, I went out to find the contents of the previously full bowl dumped out all over the table.  So the older 2 spent the rest of the time in their room while I finished up (I can't leave a house messy because that is what you come home to which would bite).

We stopped for dinner.  We figured it would be good to actually get out so we got a buzzer to eat at Chuy's, but the wait was super long so while we waited we walked next door to Saltgrass and they could seat us right away.  Sweet.  I would definitely choose Saltgrass over Outback.  We got to Shalece's house in San Antonio late Friday night.

The next morning we met up with our friends Jacob and Jessica Bratt at the Zoo.  Jacob was Ryan's roommate freshman year and we did lots together throughout our college years.  We hadn't seen him since moving to Belgium, but his family is moving to Utah in May.  It just so happened that the zoo was having a special event so there were lots of extra activities like performances, games, touch and feel, fishing, etc.  I think all of us had a great time.

We had some time to kill before meeting up with some other friends so we headed to Longhorn for a hamburger.  I am not a big burger fan but this was pretty delicious...plus the kids were sleeping so we got to enjoy it in peace.  Then, we tried to visit the temple, but it was closed because of General Conference so we played at a blue playground.

We met up with Diane Thomas (now Smith, a friend of Ryan's from high school) and her new husband at Baskin Robbins.  Our kids enjoyed and ice cream and then roamed around, flipped through the cake book and tried to entertain themselves.  It was nice to be able to visit for a little while though.

After a short break back at Shalece's house we headed out to dinner at Chuy's which just happened to be down the road.  It was pretty good, but Cafe Rio is still my favorite.

Sunday morning we decided to stay and watch the first session of conference.  The kids loved playing outside for a little while.  Aside from that, I'm not sure that was very beneficial.  For the most part, the kids weren't acting very good and I didn't hear most of it, plus Ryan threw up (he was the only one of us to not get the stomach bug a week earlier)...not my idea of a good way to start a road trip home.

The drive home was rough.  Whenever we leave some place I wonder what we will leave behind.  We got about 30 minutes away before realizing we left the kids toothbrushs.  Those are easily replaceable, so not a big deal.  We also left a wallet.  Ugh.  We turned back around to get it.  I was pretty annoyed the rest of the drive.  We had added and entire hour onto our drive which wouldn't have been a huge deal except we were traveling with a anti-carseat 3 month old. After we were back on our way, we made a couple stops to feed and stretch.  Traffic, stops and backtracking ended up turning our 4.5 hour trip about 8.5 hours.