Road Trip to San Antonio

This weekend was Mallory's first road trip and the first time for all of us to go to San Antonio and visit Dan, Angela, and Abby.  We had been waiting until Mallory got old enough to be able to handle the long drive.  She did great for the first six hours and then kept telling us "get me out of here," the last two.  We were all saying that actually.  The drive should have lasted about five hours and it took EIGHT.  The traffic was horrible and we (Matt's dad) decided we needed to get off 35 and find another way.  We did and ended up lost and then it went downhill from there.  We FINALLY got to San Antonio though and we had so much fun.

After we checked into our hotel, we all went to Chuy's and had dinner.  Then we went straight back to the hotel to get a good nights sleep.  Saturday mid-morning we headed over to Main Even for the birthday party.  Mallory had a great time bowling until she fell on her bottom and then she wanted me to bowl for her.  It was fun granny bowling, with bumpers, but I was a little sad we didn't win.  I made sure to bowl worse than usual so I didn't beat a bunch of seven year olds.  Once bowling was over we played a few arcade games and then headed over to Abby's house.

Later in the afternoon, we went to downtown San Antonio.  Our first stop was the Alamo.  We didn't take a tour, just had our picture taken. Mallory didn't want her picture taken as usual.

After checking out the Alamo, we headed down to the Riverwalk.  We were able to get a great table, have dinner, and enjoy the river parade celebrating the men and women in the Armed Forces.  We enjoyed some ice cream after dinner and then headed back to the house. Mallory spent the night with Abby and had a blast.  Our trip was short, but we all had a wonderful time.