SAN ANTONIO VACATION

We left a week ago on Monday morning for San Antonio with Phil & Julie and family, Greg & Susan and family, and John & Melanie and family. It was approximately a 12 hour drive in our 4 vehicle caravan and we did have a couple of car sickness incidents but otherwise everything went well.


Below are the 10 grandkids that went with us and they all had a great time together. The first day we went to Sea World and spent the day and we are just beginning our day in the picture below.

We went to a whale show and saw some unbelievable things that the whales(killer whales) can be trained to do. The girl below would ride the whales and go under water and come up standing tall on the nose of the whale. How amazing and I can't even imagine wanting to do such things:)

There were bunches of flamingos.

I went on 2 or 3 rides with 3 of my granddaughters. Actually, that's all I could handle.

We all visited the Alamo(pictured below) and later Rog & I went to the Imax and watched a show giving the history of the Alamo. That was located down by the riverwalk so we walked on the riverwalk for an hour before the Imax presentation.

No, we haven't lost it - we are watching a 4-D Pirate show at Sea World where everyone had to where these special glasses. Of course our kids loved our new look.

We had a great time but it was very hot - Over 100 degrees most of the time. We had rented 2 houses with 2 families in each house and they were really nice. We cooked our own breakfast and then headed out for the day. For dinner we would usually bring something in. We had 2 day passes for Sea World so our first 2 days were spent there. Rog & I decided to turn ours into a season pass so we could just go over there anytime and we were only 10 minutes away. On Thursday the kids wanted to go to Six Flags so Rog & I stayed with the two babies(Brooklyn & Hudson) so they would not have to be out in the heat and the kids would be a little freer to do what they wanted. We had fun with our 2 youngest grandkids and they were happy to be in where it was cool. On Saturday night we told our kids that we would babysit all the grandkids and they could go out for the evening so they took us up on it. The next day one of the vehicles had the air conditioner quit so after some discussion they decided we should drive home during the night so it would not be so unbearable in the heat. We left San Antonio at 8:30 Sunday evening and drove another 12 hours. It was not easy but we made it home safely and are still catching up on rest. What a fun time with family and we thank them for inviting us along. Roger & family, June & family, and Elisa & family -- we missed having you with us.