Texas Trip

This is take three on this post! Once, i got interuptted, and the next time i tried working on it, my computer froze half way through. This is for real, I promise.
Well, I'm back from yet another Spring Break. Sorry I didn't get any posts from the road up, but you know how it goes. It was a very fun and relaxing week, despite having to go back to school .
And I didn't get any birthday cake. But I can still survive.
To start out with, my parents got into town on Friday night. We left the next morning for Wichita, Kansas, the birthplace of Caleb Sommerville. We also went to my parents old church and ate lunch with some old friends of their's from church too.
We then headed off to Oklahoma City to visit some other old friends. Back when we lived in Columbia, Missouri, our family adopted a college student from MU. He would come over for dinner and we would swordfight with a whiffleball bat and tee. You know, normal stuff. Anyways, he started bringing a girl with him, and they ended up getting married and now have four kids. One of which has out-Star Wars-ed me in his collection. It was quite impressive. After that exhausting visit, we headed down to Austin, Texas.
The first day in Austin was spent primarily shopping. That wasn't so bad, but the fact that I couldn't really buy anything (it was my birthday on the 26th) kind of put a hamper on that. We visited various sightseeing places there, including the impressive Capitol building and Mansfield Dam.
On the way out of Austin, we stopped at LBJ's birthplace farm type thing. It was pretty interesting.
Then it was on to San Antonio. We had a hotel right on the Riverwalk, a historic canal with shops and really good resturants (and expensive; we ended up eating at Joe's Crab Shack, which is still yummy). The Alamo was probably the most interesting thing on the trip. I had no idea there was so much history surrounding that little white church. Mom and I saw an IMAX film about the battle, too. It would've sucked to be a Texan.
On the way back to Lawrence, we stopped in a little town called Lindsborg, Kansas. It's a Swedish community for whatever reason, and has a lot of great little shops and B&Bs.
There. Whew!
That's the vacation stuff. The most fun part was being with my crazy family. Whether it be taking odd and occasionally banned pictures, or just singing nonsensical songs about nothing, we had a lot of fun together.
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