Houston, we have a chicken (and some new rodeo tickets)

Joan sleeping in

Our escape from San Antonio was a slow one today. After signing up for the Crowne Plaza rewards program they told me we could get late check out for free. So we took advantage and played lazy this morning at the hotel.

Denny and I went for a good work out at the really nice hotel fitness center and then we waited around the room while the ladies slept in and rested.

Oh, and we once again brought the rain to San Antonio today, but were thankful that it held off for our adventure yesterday.

After leaving the hotel we headed south so Diane and Denny could tour Mission Concepcion, which we had seen during our stay in San Antonio. Mission Concepcion is the best preserved of the five San Antonio missions.

Diane and Dennyat Mission Concepcion

The rain mist continued, but we were able to tour the mission. Following that we drove them through Traveler’s World so they could see where we had stayed in San Antonio. After seeing that, compared to where we are now, they may have wished they had visited us in San Antonio.

We did a drive by of Mission San Jose and then hit the rewind button for the trip home to Houston.

A quick three hours later we were back in Houston and stopped at Reliant Stadium to pick up tickets to the opening night of the Houston Rodeo tomorrow. We already saw the rodeo in San Antonio, but Diane and Denny expressed a desire to see it so we stopped and bought tickets. Alabama is the featured entertainment tomorrow night.

By the time we did that (and Denny got to use one of the porta potties outside the stadium) the afternoon rush hour traffic was pretty heavy but we made our way home.

First we stopped at Kroger to pick up a store chicken (you know one of those whole cooked chickens you can buy ready-to-eat at the grocery store) and some dinner fixins.

We finished dinner and Denny and Diane did their laundry. (Be sure to scroll down to see the post added today for yesterday's activities in case you missed it.)