San Antonio

The second weekend in October we were able to join some friends for a trip to San Antonio. Marriott has a really nice resort that we stayed at last October with the same friends. We may have started a little October tradition... :) It was perfect timing because Andy had been thinking about going on a little family weekend trip and it's good we did it back in October, because life has been pretty busy since. When we first checked in to the resort there was an animal association there with endangered and unique animals to show us. I think they had about a dozen different animals, amongst them were a sloth and a porcupine. They let us all touch the blue-tongued skink:

It was a pretty interesting demonstration. We also got to see a hissing cockroach and were informed that the last thing you want to do when a cockroach is in your house is smash it. As soon as you do that the cockroach sends out pheromones to the other cockroaches that let them know they are in danger and it's time to make babies. So, we were informed to just pick up the cockroach, give it some love, and put it outside. Luckily we haven't had any cockroach incidents in our house recently to make that decision.... :)

The girls and Andy then enjoyed the water park at the resort. It was a bit cool, since it had been raining on and off all day, but they still enjoyed the slides, the pools, and the lazy river. Andy enjoyed the bigger slides (he wasn't able to convince Rachel to join him this time).

Snuggling is the best thing to do when you need to get warm from a chilly swim:

We also enjoyed bowling when the weather wasn't as cooperative. Well, Rachel enjoyed bowling and...

Audrey enjoyed listening to Allie's MP3 player:Rachel has so much fun with Jace:

We were able to get adjoining rooms. And since the kids were all tired enough Saturday night we were able to get all them all asleep in one room while the adults enjoyed playing games in the other room. It was a fun weekend with family and friends!