{"id":122,"date":"2006-06-21T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galador.org\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-04-08T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:21:46","slug":"the-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galador.org\/blog\/the-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed my last entry (shame on you), for the past eight days, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been on family vacation to Corpus Christi and San Antonio. <\/span>It was pretty fun, but not quite as fun as our usual family vacations. <\/span>Also, I saw a lot of stuff I thought I need to share, so later, this entry could get pretty random. <\/span>Just a warning to the faint of heart or whatever.<\/p>\n

So, last Tuesday, June 13, we packed everything up and left about four in the afternoon. <\/span>We drove forever and ate supper right before we got to Tehas<\/span>. <\/span>Finally, at about eleven o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock at night, we stopped in Nacogdoches, Texas<\/a>, where we got a hotel. <\/span><\/p>\n

The next day, we drove even friggin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 more<\/i>! <\/span>We continued to drive until we finally got to Corpus, where we checked into the hotel and drove around some to see all the neat stuff to see in Corpus (and just to let you know, besides the beach, the USS Lexington<\/a> [more on that later], the Texas State Aquarium<\/a>, and the Convention Center<\/a>, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really not much interesting there [at least in my opinion]). <\/span>We ate supper at the Olive Garden (which is always good, no matter where you are )<\/span>Then we went to this random beach and enjoyed the ocean breeze for a little while.<\/p>\n

The next day, we had to get up early, cause my dad had to bowl in the USBC<\/a> Open Nationals. <\/span>This is the yearly tournament for male bowlers who have paid their sanction fees for USBC. <\/span>All people are invited to bowl in this tournament, and there are all kinds of prizes and all that good stuff. <\/span>Though the conditions are always really tough, and this year was no different. <\/span>However, one of my dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team mates rolled a 299 game (in case you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know a perfect game is 300)\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it was really nice. <\/span>My dad bought himself a new bowling ball, and my mom bought a ball and some bowling shoes. <\/p>\n

<\/span>Afterwards, we went to the USS Lexington<\/a>. <\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Lex\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is a de-commissioned United States Essex-Class Carrier<\/a> that has been converted into a floating museum. <\/span>It was really cool (of course, I like military-technology stuff). <\/span>There were all kinds of displays of guns, helicopters, airplanes, and all kinds of other
\nmilitary stuff. <\/span>There was also an IMAXmovie theater, which showed a movie about Fighter Pilots. <\/span>It really enjoyed going to “The Lex.” <\/span>We ate a Whataburger, which is really good.<\/p>\n

The next day, we went to the beach, which wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as bad as I thought it would be, but I still really didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have all that much fun. <\/span>After that, we went and drove \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Loop,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which is this highway loop that goes around Corpus
\nChristi, through Aransas (stupid Texans, can’t even spell “Arkansas” right ) Pass and Port Aransas, over Mustang Island, and then
\nback to Corpus Christi. <\/span>During this excursion, we got to ride on a ferry, which was kind of cool. <\/span>After we got back to the hotel room, my parents did the laundry, so my brother and I sat in the hotel room. <\/span>I had my good friend, Internet, to keep me company, so I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t too depressed about it. <\/span> <\/span>This was our last day in Corpus, which I was happy about. <\/span>Corpus was not all that fun for me.<\/p>\n

So, when we woke up the next day, we left for San Antonio (yes, more<\/i> driving). <\/span>And after you get out of Corpus, heading towards San Antonio, the land is flat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6for as long as the eye can see. <\/span>Not the kind of landscape you want to look at for many hours. <\/span>Also, it
\nis prime growing season, yet none of the fields we passed on the way to SA were being used to grow crops\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6kind of weird.<\/span>When we got there, we stayed in the Hotel for a little bit, and about supper time, we went to the River Market\/Alamo\/River Walk area. <\/span> <\/span>Before I go into what we did there, I wish to pose a question. <\/span>Why is it that to get from the area where most of the hotels in a given city are to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Touristy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (and yes, according to Microsoft Word’s Spell-Check, “Touristy” is, in fact, a real word) area, you are required most of the time to go through the slum part of town? <\/span>It seems inevitable that wherever you are, this is the case. <\/span>(Yes, this was the case in San Antonio.) <\/span>So, in the Downtown San Antonio area, we ate at this awesome Mexican Restaurant called Mi Tierra<\/i>. <\/span>It has to be the best Mexican food I have ever had. <\/span>But if you go there, be prepared to wait a while to eat\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 You have to get a number (like in government offices where you pull the little slip from the machine, and they call your number to be served) at the podium, and then you watch these LED displays for your number to get a table. <\/span>So you have to wait to be waited on. <\/span>We got lucky, and had our number called soon after we got our ticket (they randomly choose the numbers), so that was cool. <\/span>If you do go there, I recommend the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Super Mexican Dinner\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or something like that. <\/span>It was really <\/i>good. <\/span>After that, we went and saw the Alamo. <\/span>It seems smaller than I imagined it to be (and less orange than it looks in the pictures). <\/span>We then walked the Paseo de Rio<\/i> (the River Walk, for those of you not versed in your Spanish). <\/span>It was really cool. <\/span>The flora was really pretty. <\/span>I so wish I had a digital camera so I could have taken a million pictures there. <\/span>There were also a ton of people there. <\/span>It was definitely cool.<\/p>\n

The next day, we went to SeaWorld. <\/span>The shows were awesome. <\/span>The rides, not so much. <\/span>Now don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong, they were still fun\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that I thought that the shows were so much more interesting. <\/span>We came back on the day after that, so we
\nhad two straight days of SeaWorld. <\/span>Now, some of the randomness starts to surface\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n