San Antonio and Sea World

Well it just happened that this month that Todd's week off for November fell the same week as the kids Thanksgiving break. So we decided it would be fun to take the first of the week and go to San Antonio with some friends. It sounded like a good idea, until the head gaskets started to leak on the Expedition. We did make it there (it only took us 7 hours) and were able to drive it once we got there and even made it home so all in all we made the best of it. Now I am without my car until it is fixed, but at least our trip wasn't ruined. When we got there Monday night we went to the riverwalk and had dinner at Casa Rio and then took the boat tour on the river. Some of the lights for Christmas were on, but not many as Friday was the official lighting. Here is Todd and the boys:


Me and the kids:


Emily and her friend:

Julie and Mike and their kids:

On Tuesday we went to Seaworld. There weather was a little cool, but the sun was out and it wasn't crowded. Here are the kids with Santa Shamu:

The park was already decorated for the holidays. Here are the kids at the front entrance that usually has a fountain, but now has a beautiful tree:

Todd and I and the kids:

The 4D movie for the holidays is Polar Express, they shoot out snow during the movie and again at the end of the movie here is Todd and JT:

You can see Emily in the green shirt trying to catch the snow:

This is Emily and I after she rode the Rio Loco, the other kids wanted to go again, but she didn't want to get wet again:

Our friends had just been back close to Halloween and when they went Julie rode the Rio Loco with the kids and her husband Mike squirted them as they went by to make sure they got wet. Well this time it was pay back time as Todd and Mike took the kids to ride, Julie and I waited to squirt them:

Of course we went and saw Shamu. It was a nice Christmas one and had live singing:

We also went to watch the Clyde and Seamore (sealions) Christmas show too. The kids sat up front as they wanted to get wet. They got squirted one time:

We went and looked at the shark and the kids actually stopped long enough in front of the jellyfish that I got a picture:




We had a great time and Emily's friend found them some dolphin best friend necklaces, here they are showing them:

We got up Wednesday morning and came home. We actually made good time, but before we left we took these pictures outside the hotel. It was very nice and had a gazebo and mini soccer field with picnic tables out by it.

We had a great time. Thanks Mike and Julie and kids for going with us.