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This will probably be multiple entries because if I post about our whole trip in one blog, no one will want to read that much at once!!
Well Baby K. has been to five states already in it's short life! Thursday February 12 Sam and I left for San Antonio, TX for our dear friends' Amber & Cowan wedding! In one day Baby K. was in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas!
Sam & I left our house at 7:30AM - we stopped in Council Bluffs and had Panera for breakfast then it was TX bound!
We got to Kansas around noon and we stopped for lunch at McD's (yuck!) and drove straight through to Ardmore, OK where we stopped at this restaurant called Two Frogs. It was SO DELICIOUS!
We finally got to Texas about 8pm but didn't actually get to our hotel until 3am! Texas is the worst, most traumatizing state to drive through (IMO!!). Nothing is marked that well and you don't know when you leave one city and get to another until you realize you passed them both! I drove from about 100 miles outside Austin, TX to Austin so Sam could sleep for awhile (he drove the other 1,000 miles!) Once we got to Austin I started bawling because it was so scary driving down there! The exits are set up so differently than any other state I have ever been to - there really is no warning prior to the exit so you have to dive bomb through traffic to try and make it off. Traumatizing!!!
Well we finally got to our hotel and even though Sam had called and booked our room prior to the trip they didn't have a room for us! Fortunately they had ONE room that was available for 3 days! It ended up being a double room with really uncomfortable beds, but we were just thrilled to have somewhere to rest our pretty little heads!
After a few hours of sleep Sam and I got up and had some breakfast before heading into San Antonio to go to see the Alamo. It was pretty interesting - and you know Sam, he loves his history! He was like a kid in the candy store there! We spent a few hours there - and it was just gorgeous outside - we couldn't have asked for better weather! (85 in February, woo!) and then we went across the street to the famous River Walk. That is gorgeous! I will have to post pictures of it because there are no words to explain the beauty! Then we went to the buckhorn museum and had lunch - but we didn't actually go through the museum because we didn't have time before we had to get ready for Amber & Cowan's dinner!
Sam and I left and headed back to Castroville where all the wedding festitivies were taking place and man it is a good thing we left when we did! If you think Omaha traffic is bad during rush hour - try going through San Antonio at 4:30! It took us about an hour to make it back to the hotel (which was about 25 miles!).
Finally we got ready to go to the dinner and got to meet a lot of the wedding party and I finally got to meet Amber's beautiful sisters I have heard so much about! It was nice to see Amber's mom and grandma again as well! We also got to meet Cowan's family for the first time! It was pretty great!

Well I will have to update later about the wedding - I need to shower and get ready!! : )