Happy Valentines Day!

I have always thought it would be romantic to take a horse-drawn carriage ride, and apparently a number of other people thought so too.  Mark and I made a dress-up date for tonight to go into San Antonio and take a horse-drawn carriage tour of the city.  Traffic was congested and we waited in line for nearly two hours, but we finally got our romantic ride in a Cinderella carriage!  Here are some pictures from this evening: Continue reading

No such thing as a free dinner?

Yesterday when we were walking around the River Walk, we went up to what we thought was an information booth to ask directions.  Turns out it was a Wyndham “Welcome Center”, which means we got pressured to go to a sales pitch today about Wyndham Club membership in exchange for free dinner at the Chart House on the top of the Tower of the Americas.  We managed to stand firm in not buying into a time share and had a lovely dinner.  Here are our pics: Continue reading

A day of training

Today Mark and I drove to the warehouse/office of Holiday Hills Christmas Trees for a day of training.  Today’s training was supposed to be just for first time lot operators, but there was a couple there who did this last year.  They came to support a couple of new recruits they brought in.  They were able to add some ideas from their experience, so it was a good thing to have them there. Continue reading