We decided a few weeks ago to sneek away for a quick family vacation. We had a great time, and it was just what we needed!
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| we hadn't been in the hotel room for more than 10 minutes and parker decided to hide and take care of buisness. |
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| and Blake couldn't wait to watch cable tv! |
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| He had no trouble making himself at home. |
We left on Wedensday after Blake woke up. Since Blake sleeps in from working late we still go to go to the park and story time at the libary. My hopes were to wear him out before the road trip but he ended up staying awake for most of the drive. He feel asleep with about 45 minutes left of our drive. Even though he was tired he did great! I was really worried but was prepared with lots of book and snacks. I can't leave out that I checked out an Elmo cd for him to listen to. Yeah it got old quick but he loved it! Once we got to the hotel and got settled in we walked down to the market street. It was only a 5-10 minute walk. We ate at a resturant called Mi Terra. It got great reviews so I was excited we were so close to it. Lets just say it was OK. They decorate in christmas all year long and its open 24 hours, so that was cool. Oh and they have a bakery! who doesn't love them some pan dulce! (mexican bread)
After dinner we headed back to the hotel for some cable tv...we don't have cable so we were excited! lol the little things in life! We figured since Parker didn't sleep much he would want to go straight to sleep...nope he knew we were on vacation and wanted to stay up late. He eventually did go to sleep and kept Blake up all night! He seems to gravitate towards Blakes side and pushes him off the bed which meant I got a great nights sleep and Blake not so much.
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| taking in all the decorations |
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| he always has smiles for pictures with mommy! |
Thursday we spent the day at Sea World!
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| i promise he does smile! |
We started our morning with breakfast at Mi Terra, which was awesome. I highly recommend it for Breakfast not dinner. Our hotel ended up being fairly close to sea world and only took about 15-20 minutes to get there. The park opened at 10 and we didn't leave until 6. We saw almost every show they had. Our favorite show was the Azul show. It was funny and the most entertaining overall.We sat in the wet zone and we got wet!
We did see a samu show and at that point Parker was fighting sleep so he wasn't that interested. It wasn't a great show so I can't blame him. We didn't have the energy to stay until 8 for the big shamu show. Parker is in love with Elmo right now and so we had to take him to see the Elmo rocks show. He seemed to enjoy it but of course he showed no emotion!
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| hes so cool! spiderman glasses |
We feed the dolphins and he wanted to get in the water with them. We tired to get him to throw them a fish but as soon as he touched one he let go. yucky, stinky and slimy. They had a shark aqaurium and he liked that too. We headed over to feed the sea lions afterwards, same thing he wouldn't touch the fish. The sea lions were funny, they would fight each other for the fish and would start talking, begging us for more fish. There was this huge one that always pushed the others out of the way. We stayed and watched the sea lion show and like it a lot too. Parker even decieded to find himsleft a new seat to enjoy the show.
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| ha ha cheese |
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| he looks mad! |
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| he found a new seat! |
At this point in our trip we were so hot and decided it was time for our swim suits. They have a seasme street splash park for kids that we played at. parker was running around screaming having a great time! They had tubes you could crawl through and he saw some bigger kids do it and after that we couldn't get him to stop. We decided to go see what Aquatica was all about so we walked over there. It looks really fun if you don't have kids with you. Parker could only play in two spots. The area that had slides, he wasn't big enough for. We had him go down a slide but he went down to fast. The water in that area got up to about 2-3 feet deep so he was limited on place he could go by himself. Of course that didn't stop him. He would walk as far into the water he could and we would have to pull him up from under the water. He was even jumping into the water to make himself go under, and everytime he seemed surprised he went under. We have such a brave kid! The other kid friendly area was similar to NRH2O but not as good. It didn't have slides. It was just an area you could walk around on and play with water hoses and things. The had cute little whales to sit on like seasaws. He mostly just laid on his belly and was "swimming" basically army crawling in the water. He loves to do that! He was starting to act really mellow so I said are you ready to go bye by and he just turned around and waved bye bye to the water. Sweet boy was exshausted! We originally had planned to spend all day friday at Aquatica but i am glad we went saturday evening instead. It would have been a huge waste of time since Parker couldn't do much.
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| no shame in playing with pink stuff! |
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| our little swimmer |
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| The jenkins family june 2012! |
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| he fell asleep as soon as we pulled out of our parking spot. |
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| he slept from 6 pm to 6:45 am...he was tired! |
Before we left we did go to the gift shop and he found the books. He grabbed one and sat down to read it. We also had someone take our family picture. We had a wonderful time!
On friday our last day in San Antonio we made it to the riverwalk. Parker had the most fun, blake and I were just trying to make sure he didn't fall or jump in the river. Parker loved the ducks and pigeons. He would run after them and anytime he saw stairs they had to be climbed. crazy kid. We ate lunch at a resturant called 'The original Mexican resturant'. It was one of the places that was open before 11 so we decided to give it a shot. It ended up being really good. Much better than Mi Terra for dinner. Glad we found it. After lunch we said goodby to San Antonio and headed back to fort worth. Parker ended up sleeping for about 2-2.5 hours which was nice!
We had a wonderful time in San Antonio. I loved that it was a short and sweet vacation. Thankful for my awesome family and the great time we had. |
| taking advantage of free cable. |
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| ducks |
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| this is the best we could do! |
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| chasing ducks and birds |
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| being silly |
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| the driving king! |
