Road Trip - Part 2

The Alamo at night

Our original road trip plan only consisted of Seeing Amanda Palmer in Austin - as seen here - and driving back the next day. We made an almost last minute decision to drive to San Antonio, spend the day on the river walk, stay one night and come home the next day. I am quite proud of us both for being a little spontaneous and very adventurous. Neither of us have taken a trip without our significant other or family member to use as a security blanket and direction detector. Who needs a man? Not us! We did just fine!

We stayed at the Emily Morgan Hotel, we were very pleased with the fact that it's located directly to the left of The Alamo, that gave us a perfect center of direction. I do regret not checking out the supposedly haunted floors, to see if there was any kind of ghostly atmosphere.

The Emily Morgan Hotel

We started our day by immediately heading to The Alamo. 

We cheesed it up pretty hard in almost every photo.

I swear I don't wear that shirt every single day...

Can you imagine how excited I was when I found there were ducks all around The River Walk?

Leslie rockin her Amanda Palmer shirt.

More duck love

Just some handsome Cowboy

We had plenty of time to kill before checking in to our hotel, so we visited the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium, and the Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks museum. It was a lot cooler than we expected it to be and here are some of my favorite pictures.

One armed wallpaper hanger

Shorty pride

long neck comparison

Lee Harvey Oswald's neighbor/friend/driver's car

Gettin' saucy with this bug eyed guy

I loved this giant rotating moon!

Eiffel Tower made of toothpicks

Mummified Falcon

Half of a face

adorable shrunken head

Hand painted bat

Hand painted butterflies, these were so neat and pretty!

This place was huge and there was so much neat stuff. Stay tuned for Part 3, featuring the pictures from the wax museum - where we really started having fun!

xomando

Weekend in Photos

I had a really nice weekend, fun and productive and adventurous.  Also, do see that goose's face?

Saturday my mom and I spent pretty much the entire day building an ottoman out of pallets. We can add carpenter to our list along with plumber, electrician, painter... two strong women living together? We can accomplish just about anything!

Just a few process photos, we piled it high with this extremely silky soft (hence the name) plush batting, pulled some quilt batting and sheet tightly around and stapled it. I will post a finished product after I make the slip cover for it :)

This little dude visited us during our building, so did a bee...I didn't take pictures of the bee...

My niece and nephew came to spend the night, I taught my nephew Camdin about letters and cuddled with him while he stayed up way past his bedtime.

The next day we went to White Rock Lake and fed some geese, there were so many, they swarmed around me and I didn't flinch. Cody stayed far away. The kids were over it quickly. They were loud and awesome and some stupid little kid chased them away. You shouldn't let your kids do that, It's not very nice to the animals, or the people trying to feed and photograph them, but I digress...

My mom picked so much of this Jasmine, she couldn't stop smelling it. I picked a little sprig myself...

 Song is so good at saying "cheeeeeths" for the camera.

Cuties sat like that without anyone telling them to!

 Mommy can't be serious, Songy may or may not be eating a booger. I won't judge either way.  <3 Family.

 I really love how much my mom and I look alike, she is so beautiful, inside and out.

We are capable of taking a serious, smiling photo, I swear.

 I love this outfit so yes, I wore it again. Also I am starting to love and get used to Cody being my photographer. I hope he is enjoying it too...

Harold smells the jasmine.

We ran a bunch of errands, I got some star wars fabric to make an insulated pouch for Cody's insulin. I finished a quilt order for a very close friend, pics of that coming soon. Did you have a fantastic weekend?

xomando

Bonus photo: Can you spot the the little surprise in this photo? A little something disgusting that doesn't belong?