No Basement in The Alamo

This weekend found us in San Antonio at our Company picnic. We packed everyone from the image below (Jess, Steve, Me, Tica, Ricardo, Sylvia, & Gerardo) into the StolpeMobile at 9:30 in the morning and headed out.

At most companies this would have been a very boring affair, but not with NI. They rented out the entire Six Flags in San Antonio for employees and their friends/family only. The cost was $5 per employee and included the rides, lunch, and all the fountain drinks you could down in an 8 hour period.

To say it was awesome would be a gross understatement – especially when you take into account the longest line I waited in for any ride was 15 minutes and that was only because I insisted on riding in the very front. (I wanted to see the “super drop” on the Superman roller coaster from the front.) Here’s a picture of Tica with the "super drop" in the background.

It was really fun knowing pretty much everyone at the park, drinking way too much PowerAde and Diet Coke while riding 12 roller coasters in less than 6 hours! Though it's sad that I’ll never be able to go to another amusement park again because now I have experienced life without lines and can never go back to the drudgery of waiting.

Finally, no trip to San Antonio would be complete without stopping by The Alamo. We headed there after the park, found there to be no basement, and finished off the evening at a Mexican restaurant on the River Walk.