Jamie's Bachelorette Weekend

The weekend of September 12th was Jamie's bachelorette party. I headed to Austin on Friday morning and met up with Mom and Heather. We jumped in the car and started south to San Antonio. It's always so nice to hang out with just the two of them. It makes me wish we all lived closer to each other to hang out more often.

We were staying at the Hotel Valencia Riverwalk which was a nice boutique hotel. They had given my reservation to another Foster but did get us a room...that is after the manager accused me of not knowing which hotel I had made a reservation with. I thought that was very rude as I had already given the girl at the desk my confirmation number. Despite that little issue, we enjoyed our stay at the hotel.

We just wandered around the Riverwalk on Friday night. We decided to eat Mexican food and unfortunately made a bad restaurant choice. Don't ever eat at Rio Rio! Of the nine people at the table, no one liked their food!

On Saturday, we got started with a late breakfast at Denny's which was very good. It put the bad Mexican food to shame! They have these new pancake puppies (like hush puppies) which we got as a starter ... very yummy! We then spent the rest of the day shopping! There were some great sales at Macy's.

Saturday evening we started the party by eating dinner at Dick's Last Resort. If you've never eaten there, it's an experience! The waitstaff are really mean to you! They make the dumb hats and throw paper towels everywhere. The food was actually really good and I got a souvenir glass. After dinner, we headed back to the hotel for the lingerie shower. We started off on the patio but it started raining so we had to bring it inside.

We then headed out to the bars! The concierge at the hotel got us into Acapulco Sam's for free! Yeah! After a while of dancing there, we headed to Howl at the Moon for the dueling pianos. We actually ran into our waiter from Dick's. I'd never been to a piano bar. They had drums and a base guitar so I thought the piano was kind of drowned out. Maybe I should have drank more and I wouldn't have cared what it sounded like!

Sunday morning we got up and hit the road rather early. Heather had a test to study for and I had the additional 2 1/2 hour drive back to Houston.

Had to include a pic of the Alamo!

My silly hat from Dick's. It says: I finally moved up to a 28AAA.

Jamie ready to start the festivities.