Cousins Trip 2011 - Fun in San Antonio

Last week my mom treated her favorite grandkids (and luckily for us, myself and Katie were included too!) to a trip to San Antonio! We headed down on Monday, and after stopping for some outlet mall fun, we arrived at our hotel in time for some Riverwalk exploration and a swim in the pool.

Super excited about the ducks on the river

Silly girls having lots of fun watching the ducks, the boats - and the hippos, too, of course.

The next day we took advantage of our Six Flags season passes to check out Fiesta Texas.

Breakfast at the hotel included Texas-shaped waffles - too cute!
Oh, and Fruit Loops. Meredith now thinks these should be a staple at our house.

Riding in the cars at Fiesta Texas

Luckily, they have a great water park that kept us cool in the crazy-hot weather! That night we were able to experience some Mexican food on the Riverwalk with Landon and Katie too! It had started to sprinkle, so the weather cooled off dramatically. We even ate on the patio - which was great, except that there were lots of birds, and Jillian flipped out when any of them came near us. Can't really blame her since it is well known I hate birds!

The next day, we headed back to the river for a long-awaited boat tour!

Meredith and Jillian were super excited on the tour because the boat driver jokingly pointed out a hippo on the river. Meredith was convinced that Jillian had been right about one living in the river all along!

After the boat ride, we walked to the Children's Museum. I think we might plan to move in there - that place is so much fun! I remember loving it a few years ago, but it was so much more fun with all three of these guys getting to do so many great things.

Jillian loved driving the trolley (or "the bus") Every time we would leave an exhibit, she would ask "Bus?" So we made several trips back to let her drive us to school and church.

Landon's favorite (and what I thought was the coolest) was this huge area that had tons of balls and contraptions that fed the balls into a big bucket thing that dumped on top of the kids when it got full. So cool!
The girls loved playing with this board where they could make hand and face imprints
Time for boats in the water and bubble room!
Meredith loved the kid-sized bubble maker and being in the middle of bubbles. Jillian, of course, preferred to watch!
Trying out her construction skills
Not the best picture of it, but both girls loved playing on the plane ("Like Daddy works for!")
Drive-up bank teller fun!
They have the greatest grocery store ever! It even really scans the food you pick out!

After a quick lunch and naps, we took the real trolley to the Market for a little shopping and some more Mexican food.

Happy trolley rider!
We had fun too!

The kids loved dancing to the Mariaci's!

After dinner, we went back the hotel to watch a movie and try to get a good night's sleep since we were heading to Sea World in the morning! The kids just loved having pop corn on the pull-out couch and spending time together - so fun!