San Antonio, Corpus Christi And Houston Trip - Day 1

First Day of our July 4th Long weekend trip, My Mom, Param family, Srini Gopinathan family, his brother family Geetha, Vishva, Swetha and myself are planned to go to San Antonio, Texas. Geetha family is from Boston and they are here for kid’s summer vacation. Since San Antonio is 8 hours drive from Little Rock, we thought of starting @ 1:00 P.M. But due to rental car pickup delay, we were forced to start @ 2:00 P.M on Thursday (07/03/2008). We have rented two vehicles, one for us i.e) Param family, me and my mom (8 Sheet passenger minivan) and another one for Srini family (7 sheet passenger minivan).

Kumar and myself are shared our vehicle driving. @ 9:00 P.M, we have stopped both vans in Burger king for our dinner. Relaxed our selves a bit. After that in another 2:30 hours driving, we have reached San Antonio Down town. This is where we have booked Red Roof Inn hotel for our stay.

Morning 8:30 A.M all are got ready and had our break fast in hotel itself. Menu is not good. I say ok…

After checkout our room, we have driven our vehicles towards one of the famous attraction in San Antonio - “Sea World”. After finishing security formalities and Cart rental, we went to Sea Star 4 D Theater and watched Pirates 4-D special effects movie. During their adventure with sea, we were experienced sprays of water and other effects. It was fun to watch this.
Our next stop is highlight of the sea world. Yes, it is Shamu Show. All the dolphins and show caretakers are entertained us nearly 40 minutes. Kumar, Pritika, Nivetha, Geetha, Vishva, Swetha are sat in front rows and all were splashed by Shamu. Before go to next show, we have given break to kids to enjoy in Shamu’s happy harbor play area.

After the break, went to sea lion stadium to watch "The Cannery Row Caper" show, where the sea lions attempt to unravel the mystery of disappearing fish in a nearby cannery. This show made us laughs. We have moved to Viva Show @ Beluga Stadium. It is filled with High divers, swimmers performance, white-sided dolphins and Whales. All are enjoyed this show.

After that went to "Waggin Tales" show, Ski Riding show, Touch and feed playful dolphins at Dolphin Cove area, aquarium and so on… Before exit from Sea world, my mom has purchased Shamu towel from gift shop.
Another popular tourist attraction is San Antonio River walk. We have reached here @ 9:00 P.M. Since we all were tired, we were preferred to roam this area by boat instead of walking. Our Boat guide was explained about downtown building history, which was along with San Antonio River. It was cool see these places. Next time we have come bit early here and do enjoy…

After the boat Ride, we have started our vehicles towards Beeville city that is on the way to Corpus Christi. This island is well known for vacation spot. This city is fully covered with beaches, aquarium and museum.