Thankfully the busiest week of school (for me) was the week previous, so we could actually relax and enjoy some birthday time.
We like to get away for birthdays when we can- and this year we got out of the city and headed to the small town of New Braunfels; about 40 minutes outside of San Antonio.
Why New Braunfels?
Good question- it's a small country town but is home to a huge water park, Schlitterbahn.
And to Schlitterbahn we went.
We brought some friends along with us, the day was beautiful, and we had a great time. We didn't get very many pictures... because our camera is unfortunately not waterproof.
After spending eight hours in the sun and fun we cleaned up and headed to the historic district section of town.
It was so adorable and quaint.
We wandered into their antique shop...
and found some surprises of our own!
We TRIED to be sneaky...
but then just had to take her picture.
She looked ridiculous.
She provided lots of entertainment.
Which was good- because we had to wait 1.5 hours to get a seat for dinner!
Apparently the old cotton gin on the river is the most popular spot in town to eat.
But we were in good company, and they even had live music while we waited...
and it was worth the wait!
They had some delicious food
AND they gave us free strawberry shortcake for my birthday.
Score!
On the way home I tried to be artistic and take a picture through my cheez-it...
and we were SUPPOSED to have another performance this year...
but it was canceled.
But alas, we booked a hotel through Priceline- and HAD to still go.
Darn
:)
AND it coincided nicely with someone turning 27 this past weekend.
3 hour drive to San Antonio
Blunt bumper sticker on the way.
We hung out around the Riverwalk Friday night, saw "Avengers", and ate yummy Mexican food.
PS- the weather was amazing!
Neither hot nor humid.
That never happens.
cool cloud...
Riverwalk by night
We stayed at "The Menger" hotel...
oldest hotel in San Antonio!
Apparently Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders liked to stay there, too back in the day.
Oh yeah- and rumor has it... it's haunted.
Saturday was someone's birthday and it started off with a lovely birthday breakfast at "Schilo's"- famous for their German cuisine...
We had potato pancakes with homemade applesauce-
dee lish.
The next part of the day wasn't as happy as eating....
our car was broken into.
Lame.
Here we are...
making the police report.
Lamest part?
(Well besides people being jerks and thinking they can do whatever they want to other people's stuff)
THEY stole our bag of dance shoes...
that was in our trunk.
It wasn't even sitting out in the main part of the car.
In fact nothing was in the main part of the car.
I digress.
A bag of dance shoes...
Really?
I'm positive all those shoes are sitting in a dumpster somewhere in San Antonio because used dance shoes are worthless to someone like jerk-face robber.
BUT they're valuable to people like US!
Each pair of shoes is probably $80-$100, and we had EIGHT pairs of shoes in said bag.
Yep...
you do the math.
It was a blow.
BUT we took care of things and moved on to happier places.
Like SeaWorld!
We had a birthday to celebrate after all!
We rate it the third happiest place on Earth...
(Harry Potter world #1, and DisneyWorld #2)
We saw dolphins...
White beluga whales...
(cutest guy ever. I want one.)
Sea lions...
Mr. Walrus...
Rode lots of scary rollercoasters!
And we sat in the Splash Zone to see...
Shamu!
And wet we DID get!
Shamu was amazing.
I want a pet whale, too.
SeaWorld was the perfect thing to take our minds off our broken car.
That night we went back to the Riverwalk for birthday dinner...
And remembered the Alamo on the way home...
(with our clogging friends)
Sunday morning we cleaned up the glass in our poor car...
(and probably ruined that car wash's vacuum in the process... whoops)
Created a ghetto-fabulous makeshift window...
And headed home :)
Hopefully a "car break-in" the morning of my 27th isn't indicative of how this year will turn out!
Luna Lovegood and Harry Potter
