San Antonio

Spring Break!  The girls' school has a two week break and Caleb was able to take both off!  We had two sets of plans and last minute both got canceled, so we seized that day and planned something new.  Caleb and I checked to find a LQ with an indoor pool (that was working) and decided to go to San Antonio!  We stopped at Natural Bridge Cavern on the way down.  Here is the Natural Bridge over the cavern.

We did a self paced tour with lots of other people.

Its a big cave with lots of features.

There were several other spring break activities like this maze.  The girls did it together and were A Mazing :) really they worked together and didn't get frustrated.  

We checked into our hotel and enjoyed the cool pool and hot tub.  We played water animal charades and had fun splashing.  It has been months since we had been in a pool.

We got all dolled up (though it was cold so we just wore jackets over their Mexican dresses) and headed to the Market Square.  We ordered a big Mexican meal (and having kids-you never know what to expect-we got everyone their own thing and Gloria ate one bite of her meal, though she had no problem finishing her ice cream sopipilla, then the next day we ordered three big hamburgers to split and the girls each ate a whole one) and enjoyed the Mariachi music.  Second half of our meal we didn't talk at all, we just listened to the trumpet blaring at us.  

We then walked around the market area and saw this family remembrance shrine.  After participating in Dia delos Muertos the girls were really interested.  They also had spending money so much of our trip was spent counting money and looking at random junk, I mean, the perfect souvenir.  They both got a stone at NBC, Gloria little man & basket and Lydia a harmonic here.  Then at the Buckhorn Gloria got a necklace.

Back to the hotel, we went to bed and woke up for great LQ breakfast and didn't follow our normal MO of heading to the tourist places early but took the time for another quick dip in the pool/hot tub.

So when we got downtown the lines were long!  We walked along the river and then checked out the line to see the inside of the Alamo and decided an outside picture would be good enough for this trip. We then headed to the Buckhorn Museum and Saloon.  Lots of animal heads and horns, including a narwal, but the girls' favorites were the optical illusions including a fairy.

From there we ate lunch and headed back to the River Walk.

Watching ducks was the highlight there!

We saw our first blue bluebonnet of spring and had to take a picture.  We headed home in time to play with neighbor friends and go to bed!