a quick trip...

To wrap up Summer 2011, we enjoyed a mini-vacation with our dear, dear friends

The King's!

Saturday afternoon we arrived in San Antonio full of excitement and rushed to The Riverwalk for the boat tour.

Which was kinda disappointing.

We've been on it twice before and both times it was great.

Informative.

Historical.

But mostly hilarious!

The tour guide this year had no funny bone.

But the breeze was nice!

And the company!

After the ride, we were super hungry and stopped at the sign advertising

"free fudge sample"...

Oh wow!
The 5 of us with teeth enjoyed a couple of samples each.
After eating so many, I felt pressured to purchase:

Bubblegum and Lemon Meringue.

Crazy good!

Then we had some yummy Italian and crashed.

Sunday brought Fiesta Texas.

It was hot.

Really hot.

The big girls enjoyed lots of big roller coasters with Daddy, Darla and Ian.

My tiny Charlee with her surprisingly big courage loved 'em all!

Remi enjoyed a few kid-sized rides.

Which she loved.

The water park was short lived but great fun.

Scott and the big kids played tag in the Lazy River.

Remi lost an earring in the wave pool. There was a search. No rescue.
She desperately wanted the Supergirl cape.
Which you had to win.
Which I did. 

Which was kinda cool.

At the end of the day everyone got to ride The Goliath coaster once more

(which was goliath!)

At 10am they had waited an hour and a half for that ride, at 9pm they walked right on.

All in all it was a great day!

Monday brought Sea World fun.

All Remi's talked about since we planned the trip was...seeing the dolphins!

We started out with the sea lion show...hilarious!
And followed it up with Shamu's production.

Then we hit the splash pad while the big kids caught coaster rides.

It was a less eventful day of fun in the wave pool (no earrings to lose...)

We enjoyed lounging with Baby under the palm
(perfect baby pool!)

It was near closing time when I realized we hadn't seen the dolphins.
Or the penguins.

We packed up and double timed it over to see them.

Remi wasn't quite big enough to pet the dolphins.
She'd stretch her little arm as far as it would go when they came by.
Charlee got to pet them.
It was kinda sad.
But at least we saw them, Remi'd never have let us live that one down!

The day flew by!

Parker fought her nap until the very end.
Then crashed hard!

We hit Cracker Barrel, then hightailed it home.

Parker slept peacefully almost the whole way...then woke up and thought it was morning time.

We got home about 11:30 Monday night.
Since Sweet P slept so long, she was in a great mood.

A really awake mood.

Until 1:30am.

Tuesday morning brought heavy eyes and sluggish bodies.

But we made it.

With more great memories.

Hopefully next time Remi will be big enough to reach the dolphins.

And Parker will be off the boobie!

;)

Adios San Antone...