Well, we have left the cold and dry for the hot and humid! I am attending a 2 week training course in San Antonio - the Captain's Career Course - and we decided rather than Cris and the girls staying behind in Colorado, we would all make the trip to San Antonio. It seemed like a pretty good idea until we got a call today that it was so windy at our house today, the fence in the backyard blew apart, and the dogs were in our neighbors yard....luckily it seems that everything is back under control, thanks to some pretty awesome neighbors.
Rather than our usual driving marathons, we decided to split the trip to texas up into 2 days, and it worked out very nicely. Here the girls are enjoying a lovely Texas sunset at a rest stop.
Nova at about 12 hours into the road trip...enjoying the ride!
our first night's stop
part of what i was sooooo looking forward to about this trip to texas was seeing my dear friend, Tesa. Tesa and I met in my first year of medical school, and quickly discovered we were kindreds. We spent a lot of time studying at the local coffee shop, hiking, rock climbing, and trying to maintain our sanity while making it through medical schoo.
Nova at about 12 hours into the road trip...enjoying the ride!
our first night's stop
part of what i was sooooo looking forward to about this trip to texas was seeing my dear friend, Tesa. Tesa and I met in my first year of medical school, and quickly discovered we were kindreds. We spent a lot of time studying at the local coffee shop, hiking, rock climbing, and trying to maintain our sanity while making it through medical schoo.She is a beautiful, kind, and an overall unique and amazing person, and after not seeing each other for 5 years, it was amazing to get to spend some time together. She was, of course, on call this weekend, because that is just the life of an OB/GYN :) But we still got to spend some time together, as i tagged along with her to her little hospital whens she got called out to deliver a baby. UNFORTUNATELY i somehow did not get a single picture of Tesa on this trip, so i stole one of my favorites off her facebook!
Tesa has loved my girls since the second she heard of their existence. She has been Juneau's biggest fan since day one. She followed us through our lost referral, and then stalked the blog while cris was in Vietnam getting Juneau. She still watches our adoption video to this day. I love that she loves our girls from afar, and that she keeps up in the happenings of their little lives through the blog. It was like she already knew them when we arrived, and so they hit it off just perfectly, even though it was their first official meeting :)
Tesa has loved my girls since the second she heard of their existence. She has been Juneau's biggest fan since day one. She followed us through our lost referral, and then stalked the blog while cris was in Vietnam getting Juneau. She still watches our adoption video to this day. I love that she loves our girls from afar, and that she keeps up in the happenings of their little lives through the blog. It was like she already knew them when we arrived, and so they hit it off just perfectly, even though it was their first official meeting :)Nova thorougly enjoyed bathtime in Tesa's tub!
lookin' cute after bath
We loved Tesa's hip little house!!! It is all about the windows and the natural light, and i couldn't stop taking pictures!! Unfortunately i took all of these pictures on Monday, while Tesa was at work, so she is not in a single one of them!
try to ignore the fact that the girls have choking hazards in their mouths....they were having so much fun with these balls i had to get a picture of them!
ok, ok, enough with the choking hazards.
they absolutely loved all the space in Tesa's house...especially this long hallway! the ran around like little crazy people after having been in the car for 2 days straight!
This morning we woke up and drove to San Antonio. Sea World offers 1 day free admission to active duty members and their families, and so we got to hang out all day with Shamu!
The girls both LOVED the shows!
but they had the very best time of the day when we found the little waterpark area
lookin' cute after bath
We loved Tesa's hip little house!!! It is all about the windows and the natural light, and i couldn't stop taking pictures!! Unfortunately i took all of these pictures on Monday, while Tesa was at work, so she is not in a single one of them!
try to ignore the fact that the girls have choking hazards in their mouths....they were having so much fun with these balls i had to get a picture of them!
ok, ok, enough with the choking hazards.
they absolutely loved all the space in Tesa's house...especially this long hallway! the ran around like little crazy people after having been in the car for 2 days straight!
This morning we woke up and drove to San Antonio. Sea World offers 1 day free admission to active duty members and their families, and so we got to hang out all day with Shamu!
The girls both LOVED the shows!
but they had the very best time of the day when we found the little waterpark area
It took Nova a while to warm up to the concept (notice she is still dry!!) but eventually she decided it was actually fun!
Just as we were getting ready to leave we came across this obstacle course. we thought it would be to challenging for the girls...but, they were up for the challenge!
Cris reallydidn't have to help them too much at all, and they were up the ropes, and across the mesh bridge without even thinking about it!
I though they might be scared once they actually got into these mesh tunnels, but they loved it!
Cris reallydidn't have to help them too much at all, and they were up the ropes, and across the mesh bridge without even thinking about it!
I though they might be scared once they actually got into these mesh tunnels, but they loved it!
finally we arrived back to our hotel room, and spent some quality time jumping on the beds!
tomorrow should be a pretty light day. i just have to check in, get my paperwork together, and then get settled into the lodging on post. i'm hoping my days won't be too crazy busy. fortunately, there seems to be a lot for cris and the girls to do to keep themselves busy around san antonio while i am doing my training.
tomorrow should be a pretty light day. i just have to check in, get my paperwork together, and then get settled into the lodging on post. i'm hoping my days won't be too crazy busy. fortunately, there seems to be a lot for cris and the girls to do to keep themselves busy around san antonio while i am doing my training. 
1 comments:
I love San Antonio--was stationed there twice and there are so many great things to do! Used to be a nice little VN restaurant on Harry Wurzbach if you want to check it out.
Have a great time!
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