San Antonio Part 2

So continuing on...
We woke up bright and early on Thursday and got ready to go to Sea World!  Micah had to get ready..

Had to put on the war paint! We didn't want to get burned!  And since Micah was convinced sleeping in on vacation is not allowed, we were able to wake up, get ready, go enjoy a nice breakfast at the hotel and drive to Lackland air force base to explore it a little bit and still make it in time for the opening of Sea World!  Cool thing about the opening of Sea World, since I've never been there before when they opened the gates, at exactly 10am when the gates are opening, all the workers pause and the National Anthem plays and they all stand still with their hands on their heart.  I thought that was pretty awesome,  makes me love Sea World even more!  They are so patriotic and so amazing to the soldiers by giving us free tickets! :)  So we decided it was going to be a low key Sea World day, that we were just going to go to the shows.  So the first show we went to was the Belegua whale one, which was AMAZING! It had awesome divers, sycronized swimmers, the whales, dolphins and birds! Micah really liked it, he was so funny, he kept jumping up and down all excited.

Then we grabbed some lunch, the joy of your son waking you up so early, you are hungry before everyone else is at Sea World and you get to enjoy a quiet lunchroom :).  I know most babies wake up at 6am or so, so most parents don't understand...but right now it's 10:30am here and Micah is still sleeping..he thinks he's a teenager and I'm quite spoiled by it! So when he wakes up early like that..I don't know how to deal with it!
Anyway off to the Shamu show, which Micah wasn't impressed with.  It didn't have all the excitement and movement of the other show, and he was just angry that he couldn't swim too.  So off we went to the Elmo Rocks show!

But it had been a busy day so far, so he didn't make it very long...

So we called it a day and went on back to our hotel..the good thing of free tickets to Sea World, you don't feel guilty leaving at only 1:30!
We then went swimming at the pool at the hotel, but it was a small pool and full of kids acting crazy in this tiny pool so that didn't last long for us..and then we went to a restaurant on the RiverWalk, The Republic of Texas Restaurant, and it was really good.  The restaurant was the one that started the riverboat tours.  Then we went back to the Alamo because Brandon and Micah had to leave early last time because of diaper and hunger issues..and then back to our hotel for an early night!  But once we got back to our hotel I went back to the rooftop and took some last pics..

The next morning, we packed up and stopped by one of the many malls and walked around for a little while and then finally made the long trip back home.  We tried to go around and see not just the tourist parts of San Antonio but the other areas too because Brandon and I really loved it there and felt at home.  Everywhere we went the people were so nice, and the town was beautiful even though it was such a big city.  We are really thinking it might become our #1 on our wish list of bases..it's only 1 and half hours from Corpus Christi, 1 hour and half from Austin,  a little over 4 hours from Dallas and 3 hours from Houston. And that was our amazing trip..I miss it already..