My sunday school class took a trip to San Antonio this past weekend to spend a day at Fiesta Texas. Our group consisted of the 2 teachers, Lou and Cam (who are both around 70 years old... but boy are they a hoot), and 6 students. Ryan got the chance to take off work and go with us, and I'm glad he did. It was a really fun time.
We left Friday evening around 6pm, and arrived at the church around 9:30pm. I say church and not hotel because my pastor was the youth minister at Grace Baptist Temple in San Antonio before coming to San Angelo, and they were gracious enough to house us for 2 days/nights. They recently finished building at their new location, and boy is the building beautiful. I regretfully didn't get any pictures... =/
It was really cool though, because in the back corner of the church down this long hallway was a small apartment for missionaries passing through and what not. It was like a hotel suite, we had a shower, a bedroom (a bunk bed and a queen bed) with dresser drawers and everything, then in the next room was a fold out couch, television, and a full out kitchen. Us 5 girls took over the apartment, and the poor boys had to sleep on air mattresses in a classroom down the hall. It was great. =]
We went to HEB late Friday night as a group and bought supplies for breakfast the next morning. I woke up an hour before everyone else with intentions of helping Ms. Cam cook breakfast, but I actually ended up doing most of the cooking. We had pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon. I was pretty impressed with my cooking skills. Everyone just assumed that Ms. Cam did the cooking I guess, and they were all thanking her and telling her how good it was. I smiled.
After we ate, I got my New Zealand fanny pack ready and we headed off to Fiesta Texas! We got there just before it opened, so we had to wait in line for like 30 minutes. It was worth the wait though because we got first dibs on the newest roller coaster called "The Goliath". I really didn't want to go on it because it was HUUUGE and had some crazy twists and turns, but when it came down to it, Ryan convinced me. Oh my goodness... speaking of Ryan, he barely fit in the seat on the coaster! He was buckled in with some help from a crew member, but he couldn't fit his arms in between the over the shoulder handles... so, hilariously, he stuck his arms straight out during the whole ride. By the time it was over I was a little hoarser and my pony tail had gotten stuck in the seat! How in the world does that happen? Anyway, once they released the safety locks, we managed to set my hair free, haha.
After the first few roller coasters, the other 4 people in our group wanted to buy what is called a "flash pass"... they're like 30 dollars (apart from your ticket to get in) and you can schedule a time for you to be at a ride, and it gives you permission to cut in front of everyone else in line.
I was not about to spend more on that thing than I did on my ticket, so Ryan and I branched off from the group and went to the water park. I'm glad we did, because we had a lot of fun! Besides, I'm not a huge fan of roller coasters in the first place. Ryan and I floated around the "lazy river" like 5 times, and we went and hung out in the wave pool for an hour or so. After that we just walked around and looked at the shops, and rode a few more rides before leaving for dinner.
The whole group went to Lou and Cam's nephew's house for dinner (it was like a 20 minute drive from the park), and boy oh boy was the food delicious! Their nephew is married to a woman from Thailand, and she made us an oriental feast! Egg rolls from scratch, fried rice, lo mein, beef with broccoli, sweet and sour pork, and some sort of sweet potato casserole. I was in heaven.
After eating and taking a short nap on their comfy couch, we went back to the park for the laser light/fireworks show. I honestly wasn't expecting much from it, but the show was entertaining, and the fireworks were the best/biggest I've ever seen. It was a lot of fun. =]
I fell asleep pretty much as soon we got home from the park, and I woke up an hour earlier than everyone else yet again, except this time was to take a shower and get ready for church.
We went to their college age sunday school class and they only had 2 people! I thought our class was tiny... Needless to say, they were happy to see us. We stayed for their morning service, which was a lot like ours... I have a feeling my pastor models a LOT from theirs.
Okay, so the weekend was grrrreat for me, because I seriously love Chinese food... I could eat it every day. For real. After church on Sunday morning, we went to this place called "Wok Inn", and for five dollars I got an order of orange chicken (delicious) and a huge mound of fried rice with unlimited egg drop soup. Okay, I know egg drop soup sounds disgusting... but don't knock it til you try it.
My mouth is watering as I'm thinking about it now. Bro. Lou made a joke as we left the place... "You 'wok inn' and they roll you out!".... haha, Lou is so cheesy... it's almost ridiculous.
We got back to San Angelo around 5:30pm Sunday evening, and I took Ryan to work then went back to church for choir practice. I'm glad I did, because I got to play with the newest addition to our church family, 2 month old baby Madyson. =]
I will try to post pictures from our adventures as soon as Ryan puts them on the computer.
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