Well, Zoo Boo was a bust. Last weekend, we headed to our favorite place in San Antonio, the zoo, to spend a fun Saturday night dressed in costumes mingling with wild creatures, and some animals, too.
As we approached the first zoo exit off of the highway, we noticed the traffic was stalled to a crawl. Then we saw it. The longest snake we've ever seen!
No, not a real snake, but a snake of cars making its way slowly up the exit ramp heading toward the zoo.
Not one, but all FOUR zoo exits were so backed up with people trying to even get off the highway to get to the zoo that we said, "Ain't no way, we'll go another day".
Jerry decided since we were so close to downtown to take us for an impromptu dinner at the...
We heard there was a restaurant up there so we (by we, I mean Jerry), decided to give it a try!
...On a Saturday night.
Without reservations.
In athletic shoes and luckily, our GOOD jeans!
Around the tower is Hemisfair Park, named after the theme of the '68 World's Fair.


In case you didn't know, as I increase in years I have also been increasing in a latent fear of heights. I thought it was just open stairwells, like fire escapes (shudder!), but as the glass-enclosed elevator doors closed and we started up, up, up, up, OMG ARE WE EVER GOING TO STOP!, up, I realized my fear had progressed to really tall towers of death.
By the time the elevator doors opened at the top, my lips were tingling and the black curtains were getting closer and closer to the center of my vision.
We waited 45 minutes for a table while the empty ones revolved slowly around us. We, by we, I mean ME, insisted on giving up and going back down. Down, down, down, HOLY CRAP HURRY UP!, down we went to the blessed terra firma.
Earth. I love Earth. Dirt is good!
We ended up taking the kids to Outback instead. MUCH better!
I promised Jerry we could go back to the restaurant, just the two of us, sometime in this life.
But just thinking about it makes my lips tingle...
...I think I better go lay down, now.