San Antonio

The weekend after Ian and I returned from CA, the Larsons took a spur-of-the-moment trip to San Antonio. It was so much fun to go for no other reason than to be together and do whatever the heck we wanted! We stayed a night at the Residence Inn by Marriott, and I loved that our room had a full kitchen and a living room, even if we didn't actually use either. We were only a few minutes walking distance from both The Alamo and The Riverwalk.

We spent Friday night exploring the outside of The Alamo, and strolling The Riverwalk. We ate dinner on The Riverwalk at a place called the Republic of Texas. The food was terrible, but the restaraunts' name made it a worthy stop anyway. Saturday morning we ate the hotel's delicious hot breakfast (including Texas-shaped waffles), swam in the hotel pool, ate at a really good BBQ place (turns out Ian loves beef ribs and strawberry cream soda), and toured The Alamo. We noted The Alamo was in the very center of town, which seemed an odd place for it to be. Inside the walls of The Alamo are lots of garden paths, beautiful flowers and plants, and several fountains. There were also costumed demonstrators who showed us how to make bullets.

This really cool tree was just outside the walls of The Alamo

Outside The Alamo
On the way home, my incredibly kind husband agreed to go an hour out of our way to visit the San Marcos outlets. Overall, they were disappointingly similar to every other outlet mall I have ever been to. However, I did get two very nice soap dispensers for the master bath at Crate & Barrel, and Scott found the coolest lion laundry hamper for Ian.

Ian was a pretty good sport for the 3 hour drive each way. His favorite part of our trip was easily the cordless keyboard in our hotel room. He busied himself with typing and relocating the keyboard and typing some more.