San Antonio Trip

Well, it finally got here... the trip Suzy, Julie and I had been waiting for! We left from Julie's house for San Antonio, for some good girl time of just hanging out! Our first agenda item was to find a post office so that I could mail a package. One would think that this would have been an easy task, but it wasn't. We even stopped in Giddings, texas and asked where one was only to not be able to find one. We were going down the road when Julie, saw this, did a uturn in the road and turned around!! At last we had found one.... where were we you might ask? Thats the same question that I asked. The post office was smaller than my living room... we were in Warda, Texas.

So I jumped out went inside to get a packaging for my present that I needed to get in the mail and then I was off to drop it in the box!

After a few laughs about the post office we contuined our drive to San Antonio, As we got closer, Suzy had the great idea to go to the drive through Zoo!! We turned off I-10 and hoped that our Garmin was going to lead us the right way, after driving off the beaten path for about 45 minutes we were beginning to wonder, we found it! This was the craziest thing that I have ever done!! It was nuts!!

The animals would come up and eat right out of your hands... the only rule, you could not get our of you car... I had issues with this, but Julie and Suzy would not let me get out! :(

The Zebra were our favorite!! At one point we had all the windows rolled down and had Zebras coming in 3 of the 4 windows, with me in the middle of the backseat trying to get away from them and Suzy jumping out of the front seat, her Zebra actually ended up stratching Julies Car! It was a little too Friendly!! After the drive through zoo it was off to San Antonio to check in to the hotel. We stayed at the Crown Plaza hotel. We checked in and decided to hit the riverwalk. We headed down to the Alamo for the first stop.

We were on foot, and it was 100 degrees and hot!! We took the wrong turns and had to take the long way to walk to the Alamo, we passed a lot of really creepy scary people along the way! We were glad when we arrived to see lots of people, as we were a little nervous on the walk there. We rode the riverwalk boats and walked around for a while, by this time we were hot, and tired and wanted to go to the room and clean up and change before dinner.

After cleaning up we headed down to the Riverwalk and ate dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. We got to sit outside on the river. We had a good time people watching.. we thought that we would stay there till late that night, but actually ended back up at the room early that night. We decided that we could call it a night and just hang out in the room. We figured out how to set the timer on our cameras so we could actually get a picture of us all together. We changed into our girls trip shirts and got comfortable for the night.

We talked and laughed for a while and then decided to order room service to our room, we order hot homemade cookies and milk. It was the best room service order ever!! The cookies were so warm and soft when they arrived and they brought the milk in a ice bucket for us.

Here we are eating milk and cookies instead of partying and drinking on the riverwalk... I think somewhere we grew up! Kinda depressing! After the cookies and milk it was lights out. We thought that we were going to call it an early night before heading to the outlet mall then next day, but we ended up talking in the dark for about 3 hours. I think that we finally drifted off to sleep somewhere around 1am. It was only about an hour later that Suzy and Julie woke up to me screaming at the top of my lungs, " WAKE UP WE HAVE TO GET OUTTA HERE" The fire alarm was going off in our hotel, and the loud speaker was telling us to evcaute. We grapped our purses and ran out the door before we even realized that we were in our matching shirts and Pajamas.

It was down 7 flights of stair, luckily we were not any higher. When we checked in I was going to ask for a higher room, I was glad at the point I did not. We ended up in the lobby with the other hotel guests who like us had gotten woken up. There was drunk guy in the lobby that kept telling us it was safe and to go back to the room. (I think that he may have pulled the alarm) Finally we were allowed to go back to our room, as they told us it was a false alarm.

The next morning we checked out, and got our room discounted because Suzy talked to the front desk about them waking us up and not being able to sleep because of the alarm, and we headed to the outlet mall for shopping and then back to Houston.

It was a great trip and we had a blast!!! The Zebras and the fire alarm were the best highlights of the trip, we laughed and almost cried during both!!