San Antonio Visit

The boys had another enjoyable visit to San Antonio this past weekend. We arrived late Friday night. This time we stayed at an old Air Force base that still has lodging available, which was nice (and cheap!). Saturday we went to Sea World. We spent most of the day in the wave pool. Sammy did circles in the shallow area and Luke and Grant had a blast playing in the waves. We also did some laps around the "river" with innertubes. It started to rain, so we spent the end of the day at the dolphin pool. Sam was very excited and kept saying "whale". We ended up having a very nice dinner at a family friendly restaurant in the Quarry. We made it back to the hotel just in time for Joe to watch the Oregon State Beavers win the first game of the college world series. On Sunday we packed it all back up (we travel light with 4 kids!!!) and spent the morning at David and Rachelle's house. We are amazed at how much their neighborhood has changed (how many houses were bulldozed to make room for much LARGER houses). They renovated their house while we were in Oregon and we were excited to see it. They did an excellent job (I'm sure it was an enjoyable experience!!!). We liked it so much we are ready to move in! Their oldest child built his own treehouse (even asking the construction workers in the neighborhood for any extra wood---in Spanish!). The boys had fun playing with their daughter and assured me that she doesn't like "girly things like pink stuff and Barbies". The highlight was a Texas style breakfast buffet complete with lots of fruit and breakfast tacos!