Sunday, August 23, 2009

Fairy Tale Land at Ripley's


Pinocchio at Ripley's

Peter Pan- Liam loves Peter Pan- In a recent trip Buck spent a lot of time playing Captain Hook.

Prince Phillip!!! The actual wax replica of this dragon fighting, princess rescuing royal!

The largest tire in the world- with Brian and Ella for scale.

San Antonio Enjoyment


Which believe it or not- has some amazing and some amazingly gross things.

The Johnston's on the Dave Letterman Show- apparently Ella found something more interesting than the host.

Visiting with Oprah.

The tallest man in the world- with Nadia for scale.

The Johnston's require 2 family pictures. With busy children it's hard to catch everyone smiling together- but they are such great hosts and such wonderful company, we love going places with them.


Just to keep the perspective on size- the largest man in the world.

Prince Phillip aka Prince Liam


Little Ella had to get in on the action.

Prince Liam demonstrating his sword technique.

The towel/cape completes the outfit.

Prince Liam to the rescue!!

Friday, August 21, 2009

Dinner after the Alamo

Once we arrived at the restaurant, the food was amazing- though we look very well-traveled!

After the Alamo

After the Alamo we decided to get something to eat. And, we didn't leave the kids at home alone, Anne- a young woman from their ward had come to babysit while we went out. She was great to have on the entire trip. Also, San Antonio is known for the riverwalk, which is a path along a river that runs below street level. There are shops, restaurants, etc. We had seen a place we wanted to try and had consulted the map as seen above, and so we started our journey.

We walked a fair piece and Tanya who was 4 or 5 months pregnant at the time was amazing- but all of us were getting tired and hungry, but Buck and Brian said they knew where they were going, so we kept walking.

As we neared the timeshare, clearly not where the food was, Tanya and I decided to stop and ask for help. We had to wait for the nice man to finish telling the other people where they could go to dinner as well.

We learned that our problem was, once we entered the riverwalk, had we turned right instead of left, we would have been at the door of the restaurant. So back we went, but dinner was delicious.

The Alamo


The Alamo was a part of history that I had often heard referenced, but I didn't know what actually took place. In fact, the battle at the Alamo was lost by Texas, but the soldiers are honored by their valor in standing against an army many times larger than they were and holding their posts. That is the short version of why they are remembered.

Brian and Tanya outside the Alamo


Buck and Nadia

Gunther House San Antonio December 2008

A morning in San Antonio found us having breakfast at the Gunther or Guenther House. They are known for delicious biscuits. I bought some mix and they were just as good at home, just not quite so large. Liam and Ella lead the way into eat.

This gingerbread house is a replica of the Gunther House- and the inside has every detail of the building as well. The cooks prepare a gingerbread house each year during the holidays.

And after breakfast we had a little exercise on the lawn while Tanya was inside getting some biscuit mix of her own. You know this game- first I let you chase me,

then I chase you,

then I chase all of you,

then I catch all of you and I tickle you until we are all laughing so hard we can't breathe. It's a good game.

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