San Antonio

What a fun week we had in San Antonio. We spent the week before in Houston with the Diehls (it was the week of the Masters so we had it off) and then drove down to San Antonio on Friday night. Saturday we took the boys to Sea World. Ya know to be completely honest we don't really do a whole lot of big touristy things in each city. First off we're not really on vacation so Danny still has to work and also, if we tried to tour every city we go to, we'd get really tired real quick. So most weeks we keep things pretty low key just going to the park, grocery shopping, library etc while Danny goes to work but since we did have a week off we decided to have a vacation day. So fun!!!
We eked out every possible moment of fun out of that place and thoroughly covered the whole park. We saw the sea lion show, Shamu (this picture was taken in Shamu Stadium)and even caught the dolphin/acrobatic show twice. We met the sesame street characters, cooled off at the splash pad, rode rides (all 4 of us got to ride the log flume together) played on the playground, fed dolphins, and together consumed six frozen lemonades (it was quite warm). By the time our shuttle came at 6:00, we were all about ready to pass out on the bench but man did we have fun!!
We parked our motor home in an undeveloped cul-de-sac(sp?) right there by the course. Amazingly they managed to fit 7 of us big buses in the circle and although they were slightly tight quarters we had such a blast. For family night on Monday we promised Jack we'd play baseball so we went outside in the circle and within 20 minutes there were 8 other kids and parents in the outfield. Another thing I love about traveling in the bus is the feeling of having neighbors. Almost every night we were hanging out outside riding bikes, playing ball and just chatting. Fun people out here.
Tuesday night the tournament put on a fun fajita party on the driving range and they let the kids hit balls (which of course my kids hated:)) We were the last ones there and only convinced Jack that it was time to leave when he could barely see his ball.
Another fun element of this week was that we had access to the JW Marriot's swimming pool/water park at the resort. We easily clocked over 10 hours there over the course of the week. They had a great kids pool/play area, water slides and an awesome lazy river. It was also a central gathering spot for other tour moms and kids which made it even more fun.
Patton pretty much owned the kiddy pool boldly manipulating the water fountains while Jack would have been content swimming with his floaties down the lazy river all day. One of Jack's little friends had some goggles and when Jack figured out that he could see under water with them he became fixed on getting some goggles of his own. So we grabbed some kids goggles for him at the store and he was so pumped to try them out. So this picture was taken before Jack got in the pool and discovered that for whatever reason those goggles were not going to stay on his little head. So sad!! He was a champ about it but I think it kind of killed his zeal for swimming for a bit. I'm not sure if it was that or his discovering the sweet lounge chairs by the pool, or him just being completely warn out but the vast majority of the rest of our pool time, Jack spent wrapped up in a towel "taking a little rest" on the lounge chairs watching Patton fill and refill his little bucket of water in the fountains.

Another highlight of the week was the gripping, neck in neck, heart stopping competition that was... the rubber ducky race. Jack and Patton each got to decorate a rubber ducky in childcare and then on Friday morning they got to race all the other kids' duckies down the lazy river. It was pretty intense, not gonna lie. Danny and I had been prepping the boys all morning for the big race. Even though we were the only parents there, Danny and I knew what a big race this was. Patton's had a chance but then it lost quite a bit of ground coming up to the second bridge. Jack's kind of got lost in the crowd from the initial dump. Although in the end the Summerhays clan didn't come home with any trophies we came away with something much more important... new bath toys!!
While golf didn't quite go our way this week, we found that a BBQ chicken pizza and a chocolate chip Pizookie from BJ's Grille did wonders to boost our spirits. And even when golf is a little rough in the end it's just a tough day at work and Danny is amazing at keeping his perspective and his priorities in place. And really when you get to come home to a smokin' hot wife and two of the cutest kids on the planet life just isn't that bad:)