We spent New Years Eve and the next couple of night in San Antonio with some of our college friends to celebrate. It had been quite a while since we all got together, so we decided to make a mini vacation out of the trip. We stayed in what we thought was going to be a nice, historic hotel on the river walk, but what we found out was the opposite! Justin had taken the initiative to just book for everyone, so our friends had to suffer in the dumpy hotel with us!! New Years Eve was so much fun! We had reservations for eight at a mexican place, but after we sat down, we realized it was a set menu and none of us wanted what was on it. Justin left to find another place for us. He said he found us a table right away outside because he tipped the waiter. So the rest of us left the mexican place, walked across the river and sat down at a wonderful table next to the river at Texas Land and Cattle. A few minutes later, the waiter Justin had tipped came over to him, gave him back his money and said he almost got fired over it, but we had to leave because there was a party waiting for over an hour for that table. Lucky us. We had already made reservations for the casino night at a bar for New Years Eve and we had to be there by 9pm. It was now 8:30, we were hungry, everywhere had really long lines, and we were in for a night of drinking. Things were not looking good. We went ahead to the bar to get seated for the night when we realized they had appetizers for free. Once we got seated at the best table in the house, there were several girls bringing trays of FREE food over to us. We ate like crazy and then enjoyed the rest of the night goofing around with our college friends. We thought we were going to have a very expensive night, but after all the free food, we got a nice surprise! Our evening ended, but the next day we continued to have fun. Six of us went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not Show and Wax Museum, followed by a wonderful dinner. We walked across the street after dinner to Pat O'Brien for a drink so we could figure out where to go for the night and found out that Pat O's was the official Texas Tech Alumni Bar for the bowl game! We ran into about 30 college friends there, along with Party Time Mike! Our luck just keep getting better. Another wonderful night in San Antonio. We headed back around midnight because the next day was the bowl game and we were in for a very long day since the game wasn't until 8pm! These pictures are not in the order of how the events took place : )
