Busy week!

We've had a very busy week. We went on vacation from Sunday until Thursday. We had 2 days to rest and prepare for Brandon's 5th birthday party. For vacation, we went to San Antonio. Sunday we started our trip by going to Natural Bridge Caverns. Nathan is really into rocks and we enjoyed our tour 150' below the surface. It was about 85 degrees with a humidity of 99%. It was a bit warm.
Monday, we spent our day at Sea World. We watched the shows first, Shamu, the Sea Lions, and saw a penguin exhibit. In the afternoon, we fed some Lorikeets and then went to the water park. Nathan would've had us spend the rest of the day between the wave pool and the lazy river. Brandon would've preferred to spend his time at the kiddie watering hole.
Tuesday, we went to New Braunfels and Schlitterbahn. Our first ride was the Whitewater Tube Chute. We didn't know what we were getting into. Brandon was terrified. There were rapids and drops, and it wasn't for weak swimmers. We didn't start the day out very well. The rest of the day was basically spent in the lazy river, wave pool, and kiddie watering holes. The last ride of the day was the Family Blaster. It's a pretty neat ride, but we stood in line for 45 minutes for all of about 60 seconds of fun. Fun is a relative term as Brandon didn't like this one either. As far as he was concerned, we shouldn't ride any rides. :(
Wednesday, we expected hurricane Dolly to show up. The weather forecasters had us scared off of getting involved in any day-long activities. She didn't show her face until about 6:30pm. We went to the Mexican market in the morning, where Nathan had Steak & Eggs for breakfast. We then stopped by the Alamo for a quick photo shoot. We stayed in the hotel most of the afternoon.
Thursday, we traveled. We went to the Natural Bridge Wildlife Park in the pouring rain. We then made a stop in Lockhart, Texas and Smitty's. They are list in Texas Monthly as a top 5 BBQ restaurant in Texas. It was very good. It wasn't anything fancy, but it was some good eatin'.

Then, we have our Brandon's 5th birthday party. We had quite a crowd. I'm not sure how we got so many people to come to the party. We had 38 people total with 15 kids. They played on the waterslide and in the pool for the first part of the party. Afterward, Jason grilled us up some hamburgers & hot dogs. Brandon then opened TOO many presents and had a giant cookie cake. Lastly, we hit a dinosaur pinata until it gave us our goodies. I think that Brandon had a really good time and I hope all the other kids did too.
That ends our busy week of vacation. I need a vacation now to recuperate. But, it's back to work this week....