Our week in San Antonio

We're back home from a week in San Antonio. We did everything from the Riverwalk to Sea World to Schlitterbahn Water Park. It was quite a drive, but we had a great time.

One of my favorite things we did was visit a cave in nearby Boerne, Texas. I had in my mind a Blanchard Springs Caverns like day. I pictured an elevator lowering you down into the cave and then a paved walkway throughout the cave with impressive lighting, an informative tour guide, and a nice gift shop at the end with picture postcards and the like.

We didn't know exactly where it was, so we stopped by the local H.E.B grocery store to ask for directions. I simply asked the cashier, "Do you know where the caves are located?" She says, "The caves...I've never heard of that. Is it like a hang out or bar or something?"
That should have been my first clue.

We pulled into the gravel driveway and saw one of those picture taking stations where they have funny bodies with big circles in the top for you to stick your head and snap a pic. We paid our 30 or so dollars and then met our 16 1/2 year old tour guide who all but text his girlfriend throughout the tour. I usually ask questions throughout tours like these, but I figured he really didn't know or otherwise care, so I kept my big mouth shut.

So this cave obviously didn't have an elevator or paved walkway, but they did have a few lights. I must admit that I kept thinking that Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and the gang were going to jump out and solve the mystery of the lost spelunker or something, but it was a fun tour.

We got home on Saturday afternoon, unpacked, and I couldn't wait to give Ken his Father's Day present. We got a Wii for Christmas, so I got him the infamous Guitar Hero that is supposed to be so much fun. We played it most of the day yesterday. It has great rock songs on it from the last few decades. It's just too bad that Levi has been going around singing Talk Dirty to Me by Poison ever since we got it out. Ooops.

Day One

It's day one of summer break, and I've already dug out the rocket sprinkler, filled up the water guns, and created some water balloon masterpieces that feel like boulders when they hit you and don't explode immediately. We may be in for a long summer.

Baseball is OVER, and I think we're all excited about that. It's pretty safe to say that we won't see Levi in another baseball uniform for quite some time, if ever again.

Mom and Dad came up this weekend for Benjamin's 4th birthday party at the gymnastics center. Dad walked on the balance beam, Mom tried to stand on her head, and they both jumped on the trampolines. As I was picking myself up off the bouncy, gymnastic floor from utter amazement, I began wondering if they were smoking the "sweet weed" as one of my friends calls it. I probably should have patted them down before they left because it was the strangest thing I've seen from them in quite some time.

The kids have their 6-month dental appointments on Wednesday. This will be the first time for Benjamin to go to the dentist, so I'm praying he doesn't pull a Cujo and make the hygienist run away crying while soaking up her own blood in one of those scary little masks they have to wear now. It's a pediatric dentist so surely they've seen kids with sensory issues before. If not, then they will have by this Wednesday afternoon :)