Howdy, Y'all! Part 1

So I'm back from the Texan Trip and all was stupendously fabulous! My cheeks hurt from laughing so much and I do believe I acquired more deeply etched laugh lines, ahem CROW'S FEET around my eyes because I was in a constant state of smile. I'd rather be wrinkled and happy then sad and smooth-faced any day.

I flew into Dallas that Thursday morning, Larisa picked me up and we went treasure hunting at a huge thrift store (I just got a few books - of course) and then met Veronica Little Buddy at a yummy Mexican restaurant for dinner - chosen because I was hankering for a margarita. We made our plans for the next week, all scheduled out, and headed home to hit the hay because we were trying to leave Dallas by 6am for our drive to San Antonio. Didn't QUITE happen, but we were out of there early enough to be amazed by a round blazing orange pink circle in the sky - otherwise known as the SUN. Seems it's been awhile since I've been up early enough to see a sunrise!!!

We arrived in San Antonio around noon and our hotel was right on the Riverwalk so we took a quick walk

and then headed to the Alamo - by the way, there really is no basement in the Alamo, I checked!

Then we caught up with Milette and her cousin at their hotel and sat outside by the river, had some fish tacos, chips and salsa, one or two margaritas (those darn things again!!)

and waited for the Bride to join us. Cindy was only able to visit for an hour or so, but I'm so glad she did because we knew she'd be busy the next day at the actual wedding so this was the only "private just us" time that we'd get with her. Then we shopped a bit - I bought some cool El Día de los Muertos stuff at a shop called Casa Salazar - a fuschia tin skeleton to hang, a catrina lady skeleton, a red turquoise ring, a mermaid angel xmas ornament, beaded earrings...oh the shopkeeper LOVED me...she said (do your own Spanish accent) "Layydeee, you are getting dangerous..."

And then we rested for bit before meeting the others for dinner and then - our Ghost Tour! They gave us equipment and everything, just like on Ghost Hunters - heat sensors, EMF detectors, and dowsing rods. Spookily fun - I love the haunted history tours - you get the great stories and I think the guides know more history then the more traditional-type tours. Then we headed back to our hotel lobby with its comfy sofas and reviewed our digital cameras for supernatural evidence and to share our own ghost stories - Milette and Marielle had the best ones.

Saturday was the wedding

but we managed to slip another ghost adventure in there - we had 2 hours to kill so Veronica drove us to the Ghost Tracks where we conducted our own tests of putting your car in neutral and then having it move over the tracks all by itself. I put baby powder all over her car in the hopes we would catch fingerprints (I had seen that on some tv show) but alas, all it did was make a big mess. So we headed off to the reception until 10 or so

and then we felt a final drink before saying farewell was needed so we went to an awesome restaurant called Mi Tierra for - you guessed it - Mexican food and Margaritas!