San Antonio...kind of

The better half and I have been married now 11 years. And since we both know each other well enough I knew it wouldn't be a big deal if we cashed in an offer to sit through a time share presentation to get a cheap rate on a riverwalk hotel. At least this sounded like a good idea at the time. Let's just say that the weekend was a little bit of a comedy of errors and underwhemlingness, but because of which I thoroughly enjoyed as you will see.

When we got to our hotel there were literally hundreds of teenage kids in the hotel. Just so happens that the Army high school all-america bowl was in town that weekend and all the kids on the teams (and parents/coaches/etc) were in our hotel. Turned out ok...these kids are serious...no partying that we could hear at least.

Then as the bellman was heading us up to the room he informed us we had a parlor room. Ok. I had no idea what that is. Then in the elevator he explained. It is a room where the bed folds out. Immediately I have images of being folded up in the bed in the middle of the night. Fortunately for us...that didn't happen. Room was ok, but could have done with a better bed.

The one perk to our room however is that it looked out directly over the riverwalk. Which looks like this.



Our first night there it was dark and you couldn't really see anything, but the next morning as we went out...that wasn't the picture we saw. In fact there was barely any water in the riverwalk at all. They had drained it for its annual cleaning. Good times.

The fun continued...but I will just give you the highlights. Jodi laughed at the guy giving our time share presentation when he mentioned the cost, let's just say our exit was sped up after that. We got to ride public transportation with a 63 year old lady who told us where she used to get in fights when she was growing up and how she was married to a golden gloves champ. Every time you walked outside you got hit up for money. And last but not least by far. After we were seated a Mi Terra's for lunch a group came in to sit at the table next to us. This was Jodi's view:




Really good times!

Still had a wonderful time hanging out with my best friend and enjoying the laughs.