San Antonio Trip!

So blogging with a baby is quite difficult.  My days go by so fast and I realize it's been months since I've blogged about what is happening in our lives.
This week we finally got to take a much needed vacation, and we went to San Antonio.  I really knew nothing about San Antonio other then the fact that the Alamo is there and I wanted to see that while we were still living way out here.  So we woke up bright and early and got on the road..

Micah said not to worry, he'd do the hard driving :)  Only problem was those short legs, so Daddy had to help him out!  This was at one of our many stops along the way, my stomach was feeling really sick so we tried to always get him out when we were stopped for me, so it wouldn't be as hard of a trip on him.  No worries, he always traveled safely buckled up and happy as could be in his seat.

We finally got to our hotel, which was beautiful!! We stayed at the Hyatt Regency right on the Riverwalk.  And I mean literally right on the RiverWalk!

That is part of the river that runs right through our hotel!  We unloaded and then went walking on the riverwalk to Hard Rock Cafe, which was right around the corner from our hotel.  We sat outside so we could enjoy the water!

The next morning, we got up really early because Micah did not like his hotel crib, and we explored our hotel a little bit, the views were amazing on the SkyPool Deck!

Pretty awesome to be able to see the Alamo on one side of the deck and the RiverWalk and Hard Rock Cafe on the other..we picked the best place.  Then we had our amazing free breakfast at the Hyatt, and we walked to the Alamo, which took a grand total of a minute :).  We got to the Alamo about a hour before it opened so we just walked around the outside of it and explored our surroundings.  In downtown San Antonio, there are 2 levels, the street level and below that is the RiverWalk level, so we explored the street level for a little bit.  Then Alamo time!

Micah wasn't to impressed, he fell asleep, but I really enjoyed it!  Then we went down to the Riverwalk  for a boat tour, which was so cool! The tour guide gave us so much amazing history of the city.

That was while we were waiting for the tour to start.  San Antonio's Riverwalk is so beautiful.  The architect who designed it in the 1920s wanted it to be like Venice, Italy, so it had all these beautiful bridges throughout.

It was so nice to see real trees, and ducks again!

This last picture of a tree is the Ben Milam Cypress tree, he was the leader of the Texan forces in San Antonio and awhile before the Alamo battle happened, he was killed in the town.  Supposedly, he was shot by a sniper and this was the tree that the sniper was hiding in.

This is the Aztec Theater where they use to show silent black and white movies, and it's still a movie theater today.

Micah really enjoyed the boat ride, but by the end he was hot and tired, so we had a little naptime and explored some more after that.

This was outside the front of our hotel on the riverwalk level.

That night, we ate at the RainForest Cafe.  It was an experience, not the best food, certainly not for those prices!! But we would do it again when Micah is older and can enjoy it.

And then it was an early bedtime for us because we had SeaWorld the next day!  But I will write about that later..this is long enough!