Raven and I had to fun opportunity to go on a Mother / Daughter trip in June. We decided to go to San Antonio Texas. We used our free tickets on Southwest to get there and our Marriott points to stay there, so that was nice. We had an interesting experience at the hotel. After our first night there, we got a call saying that a 'VIP' was coming in and that we were in her favorite room, and would we please move. We did, but I was a little hacked off about it. We did eventually get 10,000 Marriott points for the inconvenience, so I guess they ended up paying us to stay there.
The first day Raven and I explored the Alamo and the Riverwalk area. The Alamo was interesting. The men who defended that with their lives for something they believed in so strongly was inspiring. I wonder if it would be as famous if it had had a happier ending? The Riverwalk area was beautiful, and we enjoyed the boat ride, walking around the shops and dinner there.
We spent the next day at Six Flags Fiesta Texas. This place was not crowed at all. There were no lines for anything! It was fun! They have a lot of roller coasters, and Raven was having a ball. I was starting to get a head ache by the end of the day. They also have a water park there where we had a lot of fun on the slides, in the wave pool and the lazy river. I didn't get the sunscreen on very well and got a nice burn.
Tuesday we spent the day at Sea World. This was our favorite. They have water park and quite a few roller coasters at this park. A lot more than San Diego. We did spend some time in the water park, but we never made it on a roller coaster, because we were having too much fun at the animal shows. We saw two different
Sea Lion shows and two different
Shamu shows, as well as the dolphin show and some others. We also had lunch with Shamu, behind the Shamu stadium and got to see the whales up close. Our highlight of the day was our Beluga Whale interaction program we did. We got geared up in wet suits and received instruction and then we were able to get in the pools with the Beluga whales. We were able to do signals with th
em, so they would sing, or jump, splash etc... We even got to 'dance' with them, where we held on to their fins and they spun us around in circles! It was amazing! That was the job I wanted most growing up, but I'm happy being a mom in Utah instead.The last day of our trip we had to check out of our hotel, but our flight wasn't until later, so we went to lunch, shopping for books, (we had both finished the books we brought and needed new ones for the flight) and we went to see 'Up'. Very cute. Definitely don't wait to have your adventures! Carpe Diem!
