On Vacation!!!

YAY!! Punky and I are on vacation as we speak... or type :)

She's in the hotel room taking a much deserved nap and I'm in the business center trying to get my computer fix. I can't remember any of my work web addresses - which is probably a good thing, so I thought I would blog.

So... we left Coweta Saturday morning and headed for Houston to visit my #2 bro and his wifey. We had a BLAST!! They took us to the coolest boardwalk place called Kemah (sp?). We fed stingrays and saw a zillion sailboats. I was a little more afraid of feeding the stingrays, but I was able to do it one time... while Punky did it over and over. Such a weenie I am. lol

My #1 bro and his two kids met us there for dinner and helped to end the fabulous day. Yay!! One side bit... it was hot as hell. I don't know how hot hell is... but I'm sure it was comparable.

We headed off to SA yesterday. OMG that was a total mess!! I can't begin to wrap my feelings around this one... lol. Let's give this a shot. We got turned around trying to get out of Dickinson and ended up spending around $15 in toll. The highway was supposed to say west. Well - I took the west exit and a after paying $1.50 in toll twice, saw that we were on the highway going north. We didn't want to go north damn in... we wanted west. I thought I missed a turn so we turned around and paid another $1.00 to exit the ramp and $1.00 to get back on the damn toll road in the opposite direction heading south... so I could find where I went wrong and go west again. We paid $1.50 two more times and then the damn highway sign said we were going east. WTF! I don't want to go east damn it... I want to go south. A light bulb went off in my head and I realized that the fucking highway likes to play tricks on you and change the signs mid way. We turned around again and paid the toll to get off and back on again - and went back in the original direction to pay another $1.50 twice. I was a tad pissed by the time we got out of the Houston area. Good times. Shake it off... you're a big girl!

We got into SA and saw the loop we needed. It has been 17 years since I've been here so I had no clue where anything was. All I knew was that loop 410 looped the city. We took the loop and saw a sign saying Loop 410 Austin. We don't want to go to Austin... so we panicked and exited off onto I35 towards downtown. We weren't quite ready to hit downtown, but thought what the heck might as well. That was a cluster fuck right from the start. I'm not so good with one-way roads. They are not my friend. Keep in mind - we did not have a map of SA. Just a tiny printout from lovely ol Mapquest showing the entire state of Texas. Shit.

We found our way out of downtown and ended up on this road that took us into a residential area. Hum... we weren't ready for the hood. Freaked us out a bit. Just don't look em in the eye.

We needed to find a hotel and fast. Our stomach's were both pissed off at us - not sure why. But if we didn't find a hotel soon were were both going to shat ourselves. We went to a place close to downtown, but still a little seedy. It was cheap but they wouldn't be ready for an hour. We went ahead and booked it since it was so cheap and decided to go see my old home and high school. We found our way to the loop and saw a ton of hotels with restaurants and everything. Better than what we booked. So - we pulled in to these hotels and Punky went in to check if they had smoking room and get rates ... while I called every Travel Lodge from 411 to get our room cancelled. Everything was CRAZY expensive so we didn't pick any of the 4 we checked on. We finally said screw it and picked the Motel 6. OMG OMG OMG - bad idea! It was like $49/night which should have been our first clue. I thought - we won't be here long... just to sleep so it should be ok. One foot in the room and we both wanted to throw up. The bathroom had a long hair in the sink. The floor was nasty - wet - and just disgusting. Punky turned down the bed to see how bad the sheets were and about heaved. We found 3 pubes and a long hair in the first foot of sheet we looked at. What the fuck is the maids problem? Ever heard of changing the sheets bitch? We got our money back and left that nasty rat hole of hell in pursuit for another hotel. Found another one and wanted to check it out first before we committed and booked. Both of us went inside and again... found pubes in the bed and hair on the bathroom floor. UGH! We ended up driving the entire loop and couldn't find anything we could afford. In desperation, we headed for I-10/35. We saw a zillion hotels, but couldn't figure out how to get to them - so screw that attempt. Over 2 hours in to looking for a hotel and 10 minutes away from divorce found us by a small cluster of hotels near downtown. Surely something was available that was under $100/night. The last place we checked had no smoking rooms, but was affordable. Punky was about to give birth to Satan's baby so this one had to work. She waited in the car while I looked at the room. It appeared to be clean enough - very strange decor - but who gives a shit. I didn't see pubes on the bed or hairs in the sink, so I knew we were in good shape. I thought Punky was going to cry when I said 'let's book it!'. She even told the front desk guy she would give him a hug if she saw it was clean. lol... she's seen so many of those specials about hotel rooms - it has her ruined for life!

It was so-so clean to her and she still felt like she needed to wash herself in scalding water for an hour... so to make her feel better we went to the nearest Wal-Mart and purchased the cheapest sheet set we could find. Two flat double sized sheets and two pillow cases. Hallelujah!! We made the bed with our new, clean sheets and all was right with the world!

And that was just our first day. :)

Today was Sea World. We got up at 7:15am and ate breakfast in the lobby. I got a Texas shaped waffle. lol. Yum!!! Got to Sea World at 8:45... they open at 10am. The entry way was open at 9am so we went on in and fed the dolphins!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!! I loved every minute of that!!! Punky got a picture of my arm as I was feeding one - so that will have to do :) We saw the tail end of the Beluga show (like cirque des ole on water), and saw the entire Killer Whale show. That was the best part. I loved that :) Got soaked and everything. 4 hours later and 150 degrees later - we were spent and came back to the hotel.

I think we're going to the Riverwalk tonight. Not sure though... more on that one later :) YAY - Having a fabulous time!! Jealous yet?