Week in Review, 7/13--7/19

This week’s review will be all about our trip. The only down side was that we couldn’t stay longer! Thanks to my dad’s generosity, we stayed at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort in San Antonio. It’s a very cool place with a golf course and a kid-friendly water park on site, which both got glowing reviews from Dad, Justin, and the kiddos (the kids didn’t play golf, although that is on my dad’s list of things to teach his grandchildren one day). There are also other amenities we didn’t take advantage of, like a spa and a kids’ day camp (campers must be potty trained). All of us got to do something we like: golf, swim, shop. We also went to Sea World, which you might remember had me feeling nervous because theme parks are NOT my parents’ thing. I think the last time they went to one might have been when we went to Disney World when I was about ten. But people will do stuff for their grandkids that would normally have them running away screaming, and they enjoyed the kids’ reactions to the sights.

The drive (about four hours) is not bad at all, so we weren’t too exhausted when we got home yesterday. Justin has to work today because the grand opening for the new multi-use building at our church is tomorrow, and he has a few things to fix before everyone tours the place. I’ve been doing laundry and gradually unpacking. When Mr. Blue wakes up, we’ll have to go to the grocery store—I’m thinking grilled hot dogs for dinner. Just the little ordinary things that make up this life. The vacations and celebrations are like diamonds that occur among our days—made more beautiful by the strand of simple beads they punctuate.