The Drury Plaza Hotel

The Drury Plaza is quite extravagant. The inside has maintained its original opulence while the rooms have all been updated to today standards. Overall we were very impressed with our experience here. The price was good, but then we ran into a situation where the ENTIRE hotel was out of hot water. When we mentioned this at check out, they knocked $50 off of our already low price!!! Not to mention we had a hot snack around dinner time and a hot breakfast in the morning.

Other than not being able to take a shower, my only complaint is that maid service knocked on our door at 8AM {and I am 95% sure we had a “do not disturb” sign on the doorknob}. For well under $100/night {thanks to the no-shower discount}, it was a great deal. Yay for TripAdvisor!

The San Antonio RiverWalk

After picking up Daniel’s dad, we decided to stay at the Drury Plaza Hotel in downtown San Antonio {TripAdvisor is a great resource for finding hotels and restaurants with good reviews and prices}. Once we checked in, Wesley decided to take a nap and Daniel and I took advantage of the Drury’s evening snack. We thought it would just be a small snack bar, but it was a full out buffet: hot dogs, nachos, chips, chicken tenders, macaroni and cheese, etc.

We skipped on the adult beverages, but managed to eat more than enough. After eating, we wandered down to the RiverWalk. 

Since it was a Thursday there weren’t a ton of people, which was nice. We walked all the way down to the mall. 

We weren’t really hungry after our snack so we went to the food court where Daniel treated himself to a Blizzard and I got an Orange Julius. 

With ice cream in hand we went outside and sat and listened to a mariachi band play and heard bits of history as the tour guides on the RiverWalk boats floated by… Did you know that the Alamo was originally called Valero? 
 

After we finished our treats we went back to the hotel to the top floor {where the pool is located}...

 and were treated to magnificent views of the sun setting over the city. 

 

I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane...

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We finally made it to San Antonio after a pretty long delay in Nashville. When we arrived at the airport to check in, we learned that our plane was still on the ground in NYC, delayed due to bad weather in Chicago. Unfortunately this meant that instead of arriving in San Antonio before lunch, we didn't arrive until almost 4PM. Bummer.

The Nashville airport does not have free Wi-fi... what's up with that? Thank goodness for Red Box. We were able to burn 2 hours watching a movie and another hour eating lunch at O'Charleys.

Our flight was uneventful {other than the loud group of drunk 20-somethings sitting right behind us} and we arrived safely in Texas.

Daniel's dad has been in San Antonio all week for a conference. He had asked us to come down at the end of the week so that we could do a little vacationing with him. Unfortunately when we went to pick him up, we learned that early in the week he had come down with the flu and now appears to have walking pneumonia.

I feel so bad for him. We checked into our hotel and he just went to bed. I hope that he gets to feeling better soon.

This is our first trip to take WITHOUT Sophie. We left her in Nashville with Daniel's mom. I guess it is similar to leaving you kid for the first time. Daniel typed up two pages worth of instructions for Regina and we came down on Wednesday night so that Soph could adjust to her new surroundings. Since she knows Regina and has been to her house several times I think it will be smooth sailing. Daniel called his mom to check in last night and Sophie seems happy and well adjusted... maybe that has something to do with all the treats I am sure that she is getting! Soak it up Sophie while you can!!!