San Antonio Strolling....

I took my daughters on a little "Mini-Vacation" to San Antonio last weekend. It's about a 5 hour drive from home, and I haven't been in a few years, (Daryl and I went alone in 2005) But the girls haven't been since they were 2 and 4.

We had a great time, spent time sightseeing, eating, and seeing some of our extended family. My cousin Rhonda lives in San Antonio, as does her daughter Sherre. I was SO glad to see them! I have been in touch over facebook for a while with the two of them, but it's so much better spending real time with them.

We visited the Alamo, 

and two more of the Missions on the mission trail -

Conception,

and San Jose. 

We also did the riverwalk boat ride tour, walked around downtown a little bit, and had just a really great time.

The girls had a little trouble getting along 24/7, but that happens here at home as well, so wasn't totally unexpected. I was VERY happy I had "LOLA" with me... (My GPS!) she found our routes everywhere we needed to be, and was 99% of the time perfectly accurate!

We found some awesome vegetarian friendly places to eat every day, and the girls never seemed to go hungry... which is good, considering a lot of places DIDN'T have vegetarian offerings. (There wasn't a single place on the Riverwalk we found,  -in our price range- that had things Becca could eat.. . so we looked elsewhere)  But Fralos, Adelante's, and Spaghetti warehouse all were great choices for my 2 vegetarian girls. (Becca mostly vegan, plus no sugar, Jess just no meat, she eats all dairy still)

But it was a good weekend, topped off by a VERY fun night at Dave and Busters with my cousins. The girls had a good time with all the games, and mom had a wonderful time having grown up conversation, and catching up with Rhonda. So much has happened over the past 30 years, that I had not been in contact with her.. and we are NEVER letting that happen again!

Rhonda and myself at our hotel

My cousin's daughter  - Sherre -

On the way home we stopped by Austin, to visit the State Capitol Building. We sat in on the Senate meeting for a little bit, and it was quite an experience!

Rebecca drove part way down, and on the way home, she drove all the way from Waco to home.


She did AWESOME! I know she will be an excellent driver when she gets her license. She has been putting that learners permit to good use, getting lots and lots of practice in!

It was really a great get away, seeing family we had not seen in YEARS, and enjoying the time together...  I can't wait to go down there again!  Maybe NO kids next time, so Rhonda and I can hang out more!