2-DAY SAN ANTONIO TRIP June 8-9, 2009

AFTERNOON AT THE ALAMO.....

The first thing we did was visited THE ALAMO. Our hotel room wasn't ready, so we went walking around the city. What a beautiful pic this is at The Alamo in San Antonio! I absolutely LOVE palm trees and wish I had some.

OLDEST TREE IN SAN ANTONIO (140 yrs old)....

Tim and I were sitting under the main trunk of the oldest tree. There was no way to get the entire tree in this pic and still be able to see us up close! The tree is AWESOME!

"HANDS OF WAX"....

While walking around the city, we stopped at a place called "HANDS OF WAX" where Ingrid had her hand waxed. This pic shows her hand after being dipped down into the warm wax. She wanted to hold onto a star so that star was made with the yellow wax on the table top. Once they were done dipping her hand down into the warm wax, they removed the wax hand to prepare putting the RED/WHITE/BLUE AMERICAN colors onto the wax hand and removed the white wax that covered the yellow star. It was really a cool process to watch!!

BEAUTIFUL SCENERY DOWN ON THE RIVER WALK!!....

Everywhere you turn there is something very amazing to see!

FINALLY GETTING CHECKED IN AT THE RIVER WALK HOTEL....

Murals are on the walls of the building, even in the parking garage!

THE RIVER WALK HOTEL where we stayed!!...

This is the view out of our balcony! Awesome!!

Dinner at HARD ROCK CAFE down on the RIVER WALK in San Antonio!

What a gorgeous place to be...eating outside by the river, watching the river boats tours go past, and watching people WATCH US EAT! So much FUN and so much FOOD!

RIVER WALK...NIGHT VIEWS!!.......

Totally awesome and relaxing!

SURPRISE HORSE CARRIAGE RIDE!!......

We were able to pull off a "surprise for Ingrid" during the evening hours! Tim managed to find out the cost for a carriage ride and where we go to get on, all without Ingrid finding out! We just pretended to keep walking around the city sites until we arrived to the location where the team of horse carriages were there waiting for us!! HA! GOTCHA INGRID!! SURPRISE!! Hope you enjoyed this surprise. Nice way to end an evening of fun!!

SEA WORLD ADVENTURES!!!.....

Ingrid had a choice to go to either Six Flags or Sea World. She had already been to roller coaster places before, so she chose SEA WORLD! She has never experienced Sea World before. What a gorgeous day weather wise and all other wise! We had soooo much fun! Left about 6:00pm to start the 7 hour drive back to Frederick..got home about 2:00 AM, yes you are seeing the correct time!

THE SEA LIONS SHOW.....

Sea Lions are really FUN to watch, and this was no exception! Pic here has two sea lions (one sitting at the desk and the other on the floor). They are doing a "skit" about a sea otter stealing fish, but come to find out it was really a walrus stealing the fish. It was really cute.

THE ACCUSED WALRUS!!!!.....

Here's the walrus that really stole the fish in the skit!

KILLER WHALES!!! ....

No Sea World experience is complete without seeing this show! They are massive and awesome to watch!!

"JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS".....

Of course even Sea World has one of the BEST rides! It's called "JOURNEY TO ATLANTIS"!!

It's a coaster ride as well as a water ride! Totally awesome!!

"STEEL EEL"....

Even Sea World has a couple of roller coasters! We had such a wonderful time and GREAT weather!