Sea World

This weekend Erin and I went to San Antonio.... it was one of those deals where you pay a really low price and you get three nights in a hotel plus tickets to Sea World in exchange for 90 minutes of your time handed over to a timeshare presentation group.... along with your soul.

It sounded like a bargain - so we took it.

When we got to the hotel they asked if there were three in our party:
The had the following three persons checking in:
Jake Umbriaco - Age 46
Erin Umbriaco - Age 46
Jessica Umbriaco - Age 16

For some reason the fact that they'd doubled our age and given us a daughter didn't seem to warrant a larger room..... We had a full size bed.... no couch or anything.... I guess they thought Jessica would sleep in the bathtub.

Anyway - check in was a strange experience.....

Fortunately I missed most of check-in because the Dynamo were on the big screen in the lobby, and just as I walked in Brad Davis scored his first goal of the game (dynamo won 4-0 & Brad had a hat trick).

Erin and I went to the Alamo.... which was a block from our hotel.... and took about 5 minutes too look over completely.

On Friday we went to the timeshare thing which wasn't as frightening as we thought and the next day we went to Sea World. I was so excited to see the penguins.... when I was little we went to Sea World in San Diego (we being my immediate family... I didn't know Erin back then) and I spent a significant portion of my time going through the Penguin Encounter. Well.... Saturday was overcast... rainy... and the penguin encounter wasn't quite as cool as I remembered... I still went through like 5 times though. Erin was really excited for Shamu..... so we went to to Shamu shows including: Shamu rocks Texas......

Shamu rocks Texas took like 6 years off my life and may have rendered me sterile.... the 'dj' for this blessed event was a caucasian cowboy who goes by the handle 'ben-dizzle.' We listened to a variety of hits and watched the crowd participate in a dance contest. The 3 shamus that did stunts were fun to see though.

We also went to a show with dancing dolphins and belugas.... and a water-skiing exhibition.
We did go to eat on the riverwalk and that was a lot of fun.

On the way home from Sea World we blew by our exit...... by we I mean I missed the exit... by 20 miles.... so it took a long time to get back to the hotel... then we went to this 24 hr mexican restaurant 'mi tierra'.

Allow me to take you now on a brief journey through the darker portions of my psyche.....

I have an unhealthy (literally and figuratively) obsession with Cherry Coke..... when places don't have Cherry Coke they usually just throw some grenadine in with the Coke. I went to this pretty upscale place with my work team for a going away party and ordered a Cherry Coke... and the waiter was like.... a Roy Rogers? Every time he brought me a new drink he said 'Here's your Roy Rogers sir'..... ordering a Roy Rogers is just not manly... and my work team gives me a lot of crap about that.

So - back to the mexican restaurant.... I order a Cherry Coke... the waiter informs me they don't have Cherry Coke... would I like a Roy Rogers.... I'm like no... I just want you to put some grenadine in a coke.... so a Roy Rogers? No... a Cherry Coke...

He brings me a coke with grenadine topped with whipped cream and cherries on top.....

Whip Cream on a coke? Whoever heard of such madness.... I asked him to bring me a drink w/o whipped cream - to which he responds... that's how you make a Roy Rogers.... I didn't ask for a ROY ROGERS..... he never replaced my drink.

At least they had a good bakery.....

I'm sure Erin will post pictures.... she was in WY last week and has some pictures too....