1. When using spray on sunscreen, make sure you spray all areas. A little unsprayed spot will equal a big red burning spot in a couple of hours.
2. Don’t bother with sunglasses unless you have one of those bungee things that will keep them on your head! Three pairs of sunglasses entered the river, zero pair of glasses exited the river.
3. Cut off jean shorts are considered appropriate swim attire in some redneck regions of Texas.
4. Tying your tubes together is a great idea until you hit a waterfall/rapid.
5. If you take anything other than beer with you on the river, people will comment. My bag of Bucee’s kettle corn received quite a few comments.
6. Home-made sangria in a gallon jug, bad idea. Next time homemade sangria will be in water bottles!! We fortunately did NOT have to learn the lesson that beer+sun+no water/food = dehydrated super drunks!
7. The Comal River is a class 1 river, but the shuttle bus backis a class 5 party ride. Some drunk college-aged girl practically gave JT a lap/pole dance. I think he was a little too nervous to enjoy it. haha.
8. Heaven better smell like Krispy Kreme doughnuts coming hot off the line.
9. Riding around the ‘hood of San Antonio on a Sunday morning scouting Armando Montelogo’s “flipped” houses is a pretty good alternative to going to Church.
10. According to Jason, hip-hop culture extraordinaire and frequent viewer of The Wire, it is against ‘hood rules to shoot anyone on a Sunday morning because that’s when all the gang-bangers take their Grandma’s to church.
11. The irony of our fave Cigar bar in San Antonio being right across the street from John Hagee’s church, still cracks me up!!
12. Bucee’s makes the drive from Houston to San Antonio worth driving. They’re bathrooms are so clean I would eat off the toilet seat!
13. There’s a little pizza joint outside of the city, where we had the best pizza in the World. All of San Antonio’s elite (Spurs players, CEOs, Eva Longoria, etc) live up in the hills.
According to our waitress, Eva Longoria and Tony Parker frequent there often. Eva’s fave pizza is the 5 cheese and Tony is a pretty crummy tipper.
14. Short cuts are only truly short cuts when you’re not forced to drive 15 mph under the speed limit b/c of a torrential down pour.
15. A relaxing weekend get-a-way with friends is priceless!
I thought in some regions of TX cutoff jean shorts were considered dress up attire?
Also, do you REALLY think Eva Longoria eats pizza? Look at the woman!
Eva probably gets full just taking a sniff of the box.
Had 2 relaxing weekends with our friends….”The Coley’s”…..
PRICELESS!! I hope when you come through our neck of the woods that you look us up so we can also relax together… breifly!
Tex Jess…. your posts make me smile! Tell you hubby “hello” as well! Spring break was long ago, but our talks were great in the neighboring condo 2 doors down from the Coley’s!
NashJess