A visitor!

Well, we have had our first visitor here in San Antonio!! My sister Annie flew in last Wednesday (the day after my birthday) and stayed until yesterday. We had so much fun while she was here! We miss our families so much and it was so fun to have one of them visit us! Here is what our fun week was like...

Mapping the route to the airport

On Tuesday night we mapped our route to the airport. James of course had to "do the map" too. He absolutely loves maps. He loves to click on the map and drag it around and look for roads and things. He informed me of the directions to the airport to pick up Aunt Annie. Here are his directions:

"We have to go on Badcot (Babcock). Badcot is where the bridge is. Then we turn here to the airport. This is Madis (he made up that street name). That's where the airport is."

(I have to also point out that I drove to the airport to pick up Annie, and have finally become confident driving on and navigating the San Antonio freeway system! wahoo!)

The zoo

On Thursday James and Annie and I went to the zoo for about four hours! We had so much fun, and James and I even saw some things we had never seen before! Here we are watching the elephant trainers do some tricks with the elephants...

We explored a cool place called the Treetop Lookout

James has LOVED having Annie here, and insisted on holding her hand for most of the time at the zoo - they were good buddies!

James loves looking at the zoo map. In fact, each time we go to the zoo it is a tradition to sit on a big rock by the entrance and plan out our route.

We saw some cool fish and some big hippos in a big aquarium!

We like this grumpy fish...

Can you see the hippos?

Monkeys

Had to take advantage of this photo op! Love that my family is named after a monkey.



Probably the coolest part of the zoo was the butterfly exhibit! We had never gone in it before and it was the neatest thing! It is this greenhouse-type building just full of butterflies. James got a little nervous at all the butterflies flying around, but he really enjoyed it. I even got to hold one on my hand! James really wanted it to be on his hand, but we couldn't get the butterfly to comply. Pretty cool!





























James checks out the prairie dogs





James got a fun lion toy from Aunt Annie!





Tum pluckered after a long day at the zoo



Later that night Annie and I double-team quizzed Jonathan on his flashcards for his test on Friday! We had lots of fun hanging out with Jonathan in the evenings after he was done studying :)

Raymond Rimkus Park

On Friday James and Annie and I went to Raymond Rimkus Park! James played on the playground and we explored the park. We discovered that there is a 1/2-mile loop path you can walk on - James ran almost the entire way!

















Later we went shopping, then went to Red Robin for dinner!







And our awesome Friday night activities included eye exams, wahoo! good times! Annie loves this picture.



Incarnate Word Campus

On Saturday we all (yes, even Jonathan!) visited the main campus of his school. We gave Annie a little tour and she got her very own 'Carnate Word t-shirt!



























The Riverwalk

We then went to the Riverwalk! This is such a cool place. James couldn't wait to come here!









The Alamo

While at the Riverwalk we walked to the "Almo" as James calls it. He kept on asking over and over again if we could go to the Almo - and then once we got inside he just wanted to leave! Silly boy. He did, however, LOVE all of the maps on the displays outside the building. We couldn't get him to leave...

Sunday Fun

We love Sundays because Daddy doesn't study!! We had lots of fun playing (and going to church, of course). We decided to get out our Halloween costumes and had some fun...











After dinner we were planning on carving pumpkins (or "punkpins" as James calls them) but we were sleepy. We ended up drawing on them with markers and had lots of fun! Our favorite was when Annie and I drew each other's faces on opposite sides of a pumpkin, then turned it around to see the end result - pretty much the funniest thing ever.











Annie's drawing of me:





My drawing of Annie:
















Then I drew Jonathan:



And Jonathan drew me:















We had tons of fun! We also played with trains and toys a LOT, watched movies, ate yummy food, and just had a great time being together. We are so glad Annie came to visit!