San Antonio Trip

 One of the blessings of homeschooling is that we don't have to wait for holidays or school days off to go on vacations, so 3 weeks after our trip to Peru we went to San Antonio-TX. It was a quick trip but we had lots of fun!!

We stayed in a hotel downtown and the Riverwalk was just behind it, so we had great food and nice walks at nights. I loved the carriages that go all day until very late at night. They had nice lights at nights. It looks like those from the princesses movies.  

The weather was perfect. We wanted to visit the Alamo as part of our learning field trip. It was very interesting and gave us a new perspective. We also learn a lot from the people who are wearing the kind of clothes like those days and a lady even taught us how they used to sew those women and I admire them for the patience they had to do it. 

We also enjoyed SeaWorld. It was the first time Alexa was there and she had a blast.  The kids wanted me to try a roller coaster... I hate them so they had in mind to persuade me to do at least the smallest one. I said ok after a long conversation. It was scary for me even the one for kids. I scream and yelled the whole time there and you know what?.... Yes,! they wanted to do it again!!! so I told them to go to other rides before hoping they forget about it but noooo, they didn't... so I had to go to the same kid's roller coaster and scream...I mean "enjoy" the ride. 

I always preferred to do the merry go round or the little car bumps but for me even small roller coasters are scary hahah. I think what the kids enjoyed the most is look at mommy when she is scared, but it's ok, they can know that mommies get  scared sometimes and that sometimes I just do things that scare me because I need to have new experiences as long s they are good and appropriate. 

I really enjoyed the nights... it was all full of lights. the Riverwalk with the stores and the trees decorated with colorful lights, even the carriages taking people all downtown had light shining. It was kind of busy and noisy but lively too so I really enjoyed it.

Some of the boats in the Riverwalk had light and music and some had guided tours... I didn't know that until we got on one boat and they never stopped talking about San Antonio, the Riverwalk, the stores and its history while the others were all playing Christmas carols. I was kind of not happy about it. We just called the wrong company. I thought all of them were the same but I mean to call the caroling one. The price for my group would have been the same as what we paid for the one we bought but I wanted to sing Christmas carols on the boat!!! Anyway. We didn't have any options and we didn't have more days or the desire of spending more money for another trip. I have to say our boat tour was informational. It was a great trip and we had fun!!