We flew out of Charlottesville early Friday morning. Our flight left at 6:00 am so we were at the airport by 5:10 meaning we were up at 4:45. We flew to Atlanta and magically all got seats on the first flight to San Antonio. By then we were all really hungry so on our way from the airport in San Antonio we stopped to eat at Lulu's Bakery and Cafe. A few nights before we left I looked up some fun things to do in San Antonio. When I read that they sold a 3 pound cinnamon roll I knew I wanted to stop there. It was worth the stop. Mark's mom was also in San Antonio to visit so she met us at Lulu's with David, Emma and Matt. The cinnamon roll was delicious and gigantic.
After eating we were ready to see San Antonio. We parked downtown and found our way to the famous San Antonio Riverwalk. We all loved the riverwalk. Sue offered to take anyone who wanted on a riverwalk boat cruise so Jared, Lydia, and Dvid quickly signed up. The rest of us walked along the river enjoying the greenery, bridges, cute restaurants and beautiful weather. I do not like hot weather and was so pleased to have a cool, cloudy 65 degree day. The riverwalk is super relaxing and enjoyable. San Antonio has done a really great job maintainig it. Way back in the day people in San Antonio were worried about flooding so they wanted to create a bypass system and eventually with funding from Roosevelt's Work Progress Administration it was completed. It ranges from 2 to 24 feet deep and was designed in part by the same people who did designs for Disneyland. It was great.
Emma and Lydia
Since we were in San Antonio I felt we should at least stop by The Alamo. Jared loved all the military displays and Lydia was mostly just tired but we stopped and now we can say we did.
This tree was awesome, it was my favorite part of The Alamo.
Besides visiting family we love, and seeing some new fun things we really wanted to go to the temple while we were there. David and Emma kindly watched Jared and Lydia while we went to the temple. It was really great to get to go to the temple with family. It doesn't happen often for us and was a special treat. We really have to plan temple trips on our vacations now that the DC temple is closed. We are so thankful to Shannon for taking us over and to her kind kids for hanging out with Jared and Lydia. Mark and I also don't often go into the temple together as one of us is with our kids outside so it was great to go in together too. Its a beautiful little temple with tons of beautiful stained glass windows.
Afterwards we stopped at In N Out for lunch. Matt actually works there the last 9 months or so. I was really the main person who wanted to go there. Sue offered to take us out to lunch wherever we wanted but everyone kindly let me go there. It was really thoughtful. Mark really wanted BBQ, we were in Texas after all, and later on in the day when we went to get Bahama Bucks he noticed a Rudy's right down the street and walked over there to get some smoked brisket and turkey. He was quite pleased that he did. We all were actually as Rudy's is really good. There is one in Colorado Springs that we went to years ago.
Jared, David, Matt
Shannon's family was taking care of some dogs for friends in their ward so we drove over with them and while the kids took care of the dogs (Jared and Lydia loved those dogs! They were a highlight of the trip, they are still talking about Shadow and Boo. ) Mark and I went on a really nice walk with Shannon through the neighborhood. It was so great to get some time to visit with her one on one. We originally planned to attend Sacrament meeting with them so we could hear Matt's farewell talk but the flights coming back looked really bad. So we got up super early (again) and drove the 40 minutes or so to the Austin Airport to catch the 6:00 am flight to Atlanta. We luckily all got on and then instead of flying to Charlottesville from Atlanta we flew to Richmond and then rented a car to get home. Not the ideal plan but one that worked. It is so tricky to get back to Charlottesville which is really a bummer as we live right next to the airport! At least it works well for leaving town. Having these two really early morning flights so close together was rough! Lydia was especially so sad to get up Sunday morning. It was really nice to go see Shannon and her family, I'm s glad it worked out. When I think about our trips I sometimes think the people we go visit are sort of getting the short end of the stick. Having to drive us to airports at odd times and not completely knowing exactly when we will leave. We try to be as non intrusive as possible but you just can't know with standby. I certainly appreciate Mark working these late nights for us to go do these cool things that we could never do otherwise and appreciate people who still want us to come.
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