Our flights to San Antonio were smooth and uneventful.\u00a0 At our brief stop in Phoenix, Courtney bought $45 of cactus candy to give to her friends upon our return.\u00a0 Cactus candy was something that I had always gotten for our kids back when I used to visit Phoenix for business.\u00a0 Courtney still remembers cactus candy fondly.<\/p>\n
I wish getting out of the San Antonio airport had been easy, but it was not \u2013 I stood in the car rental line for over an hour.\u00a0 Dollar Rent-a-Car was out of cars so they were only handing them out as they came in.\u00a0 In the past, this meant that whatever car was available is what you got, and it was usually a serious upgrade.\u00a0 Not so today \u2013 there were enough people requesting full-sized cars that we had to wait for our mid-size.\u00a0 We got a Chevy Cruise.<\/p>\n
First stop was to eat lunch.\u00a0 I had heard good things about a Mediterranean place near the Lackland Valley High gate, so we went there.\u00a0\u00a0 Good choice, the food was excellent!\u00a0 We went to the visitor\u2019s office afterwards to get our passes, but it turned out that the pieces of paper Jeffrey had sent us WERE the passes.<\/p>\n
Our hotel was really set up for this graduation weekend.\u00a0 The guy who greeted us told us just about everything we would need to succeed in this coming week.\u00a0 He also gave us a room that had a view of Lackland base\u2026 except it didn\u2019t; it had a view of a wall and a vending machine.\u00a0 We laughed about our \u201cmillion dollar view\u201d all week.<\/p>\n
In the evening, we met up with Barbara\u2019s parents who had driven from Arkansas and were now staying on base at the Air Force Lodge. \u00a0As an ex-Air Force person, Grandpa was allowed to do this.\u00a0 We could too, since we were here for the graduation, but our accommodations would have been pretty rustic, unlike the digs Barbara\u2019s parents were able to get, so we stayed off-base.\u00a0 We wanted to go to the mall near our hotel, but the mall turned out to be a strip mall, and all the places were closed.\u00a0 I had picked out a top-rated restaurant in that mall for tonight\u2019s meal, but no one was hungry.\u00a0 Barbara and her parents went back to the Lodge to catch up.\u00a0 Courtney and I went to Arby\u2019s for dinner, and then back to our hotel so Courtney could start doing all the homework her teachers had assigned here during her week off from school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our flights to San Antonio were smooth and uneventful.\u00a0 At our brief stop in Phoenix, Courtney bought $45 of cactus candy to give to her friends upon our return.\u00a0 Cactus candy was something that I had always gotten for our … Continue reading