San Antonio

We spent 10 days of March in sunny San Antonio visiting Chad's sister, Sharon and their family.

It was a beautifully relaxing time and while we were there we were able to take in some of the sites:

We went to a 'drive through safari' where the animals come right up to (and sometimes into) your car. They give you food to feed them, and they pretty much eat right out of your hand. We saw longhorns, buffalo, ostrich, emu, zebra, antelope, a whole bunch of African animals I can't ever remember the names of, etc. Zach loved waving at all of them out of the window and, aside from the ostriches, which were a tad on the aggressive side, the animals were all pretty gentle.



Once we were done driving through the animals, we stopped and fed the goats. Even Zach got into feeding them, although he 'sample' the pellets at least once.






Zach and I then flew to Dallas and spent a couple of days with Joni. We pretty much just hung out, but we did go for a beautiful walk and were able to feed some ducks




Toward the end of the week, Chad, Angela, Lindsey and I went to the Natural Bridge Caverns.

They were pretty amazing and we had fun hanging out with the girls.





Chad and I also got a chance to go see some of the sites in downtown San Antonio including the Alamo and the Riverwalk. Greg was our tour guide and we had a great time exploring.






On Saturday we tried to go to the Zoo, which was totally packed. So.. not wanting to fight the crowds, we rode the train through the park instead.



It was a fun trip, but mostly we enjoyed just hanging out with the family and Zach LOVED playing with all his cousins.



Being around all of them even inspired him to take his first few steps:




Needless to say, we were a little sad to come home, and unfortunately (or fortunately, whichever way you look at it), he hasn't seen much need to walk since we got here..