San Antonio!

We spent the weekend in San Antonio for my 2nd Mother's Day, and we stayed at the Hyatt on the Riverwalk. What a great hotel and SO convenient to everything. After a 4 hour drive, we were very happy to finally be at the hotel. Bella ran around saying "ooohhh, ahhhh" and was very excited and pleased with her new digs.

Brian & Bella in the hotel room

We freshened up from the drive and headed to the Riverwalk for dinner. We weren't in the mood for Tex-Mex (yeah, I know!) and decided to eat at Michelino's Italian restaurant. We enjoyed a bottle of Chianti and plenty of pasta....my two favorites. After dinner, we strolled the Riverwalk and Bella loved watching the ducks.

SeaWorld: On Saturday, we headed to SeaWorld....YAY! Our first stop was to checkout the Clydesdale horses, and oh they were HUGE! We took a picture in front of them (SeaWorld copyright) and I was even a little nervous standing next to one.

Next stop was the dolphin tank. There was a very long line to buy fish to feed them, so we opted to watch them instead. Bella liked watching them swim and especially loved when they came over to get us soaking wet!

To cool off a little...it was 90 degrees!....we headed inside to see the coral reefs and the shark tanks. The coral reef was unbelievably big and packed with all sorts of awesome fish, eels, and sting rays.

Brian pointing out a stingray

Bella & Brian looking at the shark tank

We were anxious to check out the 4D IMAX theatre showing a Pirate movie, although not too sure how Bella would do. Thankfully she likes wearing sunglasses, so getting her to wear the special glasses wasn't too difficult. She didn't like the special effects of spritzing water or bursts of air, so she was quickly sitting on my lap. (I didn't mind because she ended up protecting me from the water drenching at the end!)

And what SeaWorld trip would be complete without seeing Shamu and the orcas??? Bella LOVED Shamu and was asking for SSSmooo the rest of the day. We were sitting about 4 rows up from the bottom on the right side of the stage and was perfect location to get soaked. Did I mention it was 90 degrees??? We were so miserably hot and were hoping for a soaking.

Shamu & a trainer

After a fun-filled day at SeaWorld, we were exhausted. We headed back to our hotel, took a small nap, and then headed back to the Riverwalk for dinner. This time we were armed with lots of tortillas to feed the ducks, but we found out they don't like that. Booooo! While eating chips & salsa, Bella kept yelling "Eat!" to the pigeons and she'd throw them a chip. Unfortunately this meant we quickly had about 15 pigeons eyeing our chip basket!

Bella- waiting for our dinner table

Me & Bella- dinner at Casa Rio's Mexican Food

Before leaving the hotel on Sunday, Bella wanted to check out the pool one last time. We had swam at least once a day in it, and she loved that we could see the pool from our room. By the way, hotel interior designers clearly do not stage rooms in a safe, baby proofing mindset. She just hopped up on the chair, climed on the windowsill ledge, and would yell "WaWa, WaWa".

Bella showing me that the room is NOT baby-proofed!

It was nice to get away for a mini-vacation, and I really had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. I think I might try to get it changed to a Mother's Month instead....but for now, I enjoyed the much needed break.