We decided to take a short vacation in Texas. Landon, Greg, Grandma and Nanny left on Thursday morning Aug 7th to head to Yorktown, TX. They got to visit with one of Greg's Great Aunt's, and uncle and play and visit with several cousins. Landon had a good time with the cats and playing with his cousins Sean and Sheldon. Landon calls them the boys.
Friday after work I drove down to Austin to stay with my long time friend Jaime and her husband Tony. They just moved back to Texas from Georgia so it was great to see them. They are currently in an apartment, but looking for a house in Austin. Greg and crew drove up to Austin on Saturday morning. Greg, Landon and I went to lunch with a friend that Greg has known since co-oping during college. We had a good time visiting and eating with Debbie and her family. They were heading to the airport after lunch for their vacation in Colorado. On the way back to Jaime's after lunch Landon fell asleep. He actually slept for a couple hours on a sleeping bag in the back bedroom. I'm sure he was sleep deprived and very tired.
That night we went to a good Italian place near Jaime and Tony, and then we went downtown to Paciugo for a little dessert. Landon liked seeing the horse carriages, and he always likes going to Paciugo.
We had a good time hanging out with Jaime and Tony. Landon enjoyed getting to know them and loved playing with their cat Ringo. Jaime said that she wasn't surprised when I told her that our first little one was going to be named Landon. When we were younger we did several games where we wrote down favorite colors, how many children we wanted names, etc. Jaime said that one of my names was Landon. I didn't remember that, but we knew a Landon in high school so that makes sense. Anyway, I thought that was funny.
Sunday we had a great breakfast with Jaime and Tony, and a little later we had lunch with Greg's Aunt Jody and Uncle Buddy who live in Austin. We enjoyed talking with them. One of their daughters is engaged and getting married next year so it was fun to talk about wedding stuff again. After that Greg drove us to San Antonio (Landon and I pretty much slept the whole way).
That night we decided to get some food from Whole Foods
and just eat in the room. We also went swimming in the pool at the hotel. We stayed at Staybridge Suites on 410 which happens to be the first place that Landon ever got into a pool.Monday we went to Sea World. We of course got to see the Shamu show called Believe which was really good. There are also several places that you can feed the animals. We fed dolphins and got to touch them (Landon just wanted to watch), alligators, and sea lions. Landon liked feeding the Sea Lions because you basically just dropped the fish a ways down to them. We also went into a bird area where you fed them out of a little cup. One of the birds bit Landon so he wasn't to thrilled about doing that after that. We got to see the silly sea lion show, and then we went through the Shark tanks. Landon basically fell asleep in the stroller before we left the park. He was pretty tired, but excited that we bought him a Shamu while he slept.
Tuesday it rained quite a bit but we went to the Zoo anyway. It was at least cooler even though we were all wet. Several of the animals went inside because of the rain, but we still had fun seeing the monkeys, snow leopard, hippos, rhinos, alligators, many birds and snakes. We also got to see a Turantula up close. Greg and Landon enjoyed feeding ducks and fish. We also tried feeding goats, but Landon wasn't to sure about getting to close to them. He did get to hear them say Maa Maa which you don't hear as often as other animals.
A little after mid day we were soaked, and about ready to go. We went back to the room the change and have lunch. We tried taking a nap, but Landon had a quick one on the way back to hotel and didn't want to sleep. That afternoon we went to the river walk and took the boat ride tour. Landon of course fell asleep on the way to downtown. Once he woke up he kept saying where's our boat. Waiting in line is fun to explain to a 2 year old.
After the tour we took a Trolley down to one of our favorite Mexican Restaurants, La Margarita. I think Landon liked the Trolley ride as much if not more than the other events.
Landon got to press bottons in the elevator, go swimming every night, and eat waffles for breakfast. You can't ask for much more than that.
Anyway, we had a good time and got to get away from the norm for a little bit.
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