Winter break, Santonio TX

Week before trip: make sure everyone has all the clothes they will need to make their suitcases too full to shut. Organize all chargers, both car and wall and all items needed to make the carry on bags too heavy to possibly carry thru the airport. Pack at least one expensive cosmetic item that is 4.1 ozs so the snotty airport idiot can take it away. Arrange daycare for the puppy and clean the house in case we all perish in a crash and people actually have to enter my home.

Day of trip: refill all necessary mood elevator and anxiety medication. Buy “earplanes” to keep my ears from popping during the descent. Check for the upteen time to make sure I have my drivers license. Change purses and pick our perfect outfit for the trip so people on the plane will think “my, what a perfect family” I like to feed their delusions as well as mine. Get snacks for the kids for the plane and pull out of the driveway. Drive all the way to the airport firming believing that I have left an item behind that is so vital to our existance that we won’t survive the week.

Arrive at airport: Steve walks in to the airport with a scowl on his face that makes it appear that the whole checking in process is going to put him in a foul mood. He turns and gives us the drill about the litte bin and what we need with the little bin. Everyone takes off their shoes and we are all sent forward once again confirmed that we are not terroists

Arrival: It was lovely to land on that warm Texas soil and considering the amount of luggage we had we thought we would have plenty of time to soak in a little of the warm Texas night before we ever saw our bags again. But the bags came quickly and we were to start our Winter Break 2008 in nice comfy beds in our suite. We arrived and they gave us a bag of Hershey kisses which at that time of the night seems like one of the niciest things anyone had done for me in a while. However when we got to the suite the windows were opened and a big industrial blow was running in our room. You could smell that yucky damp carpet smell and it was spoiling my nice Hershery kisses high. Since the place was booked full for that night we pushed past the faint odor of what I was sure to be identified as black mold in the morning and went to bed. Tomorrow will be a better day.

Day Two: Management informed us that a room would be available to the next for us to move into. We agreed. It must have been all the stinky fumes from the night before making us so agreeable.

We headed to the one hot spot in Antonio – The River Walk. It was very beautiful and well planned out. We spent the days walking , taking boat rides to learn about the history of the river walk and dining on some really great food. We visited to Alamo and all the little shops aroud it where you could get t-shirts with sayings printed them Like pick on me and you’ll be picking on the whole trailor part. You will be shocked to know that I did not come home with that shirt.