 the luck of the draw I think you know so we flew out on Saturday as most of you are aware if you watched my vlog we flew out on Saturday to attend the Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Convention 2018 in San Antonio, Texas and right before our day of travel in our east of it and it was a little bit scary before we left because we didn't know if our flight would be canceled last moment a lot a lot of people did get their flights canceled but we only got high winds and rain and that by the time our departure we were able to depart and and everything was okay so we've had an amazing couple of days at the convention we did the riverwalk we did all sorts of fun stuff that you seen a lot of clips of and then all of a sudden we got wind of another nor'easter coming in to home and I checked on the airline flight and of course our flight was in danger of being canceled at that point in time they said suggested calling the airline and so I called the airline and they said sure enough you know both our flights are in that high zone of whatever where they would be you know potentially having being impacted by the nor'easter that was coming in of course they said it could fizzle out you never know but they did strongly suggest we stay on top of it so we ended up rebooking and the earliest we could get out two seats together on our flights was Friday night so here we are and we're like two days you know extra that we hadn't really planned on because we figured we'd be home Wednesday no big deal and we didn't pack for two extra days even though I did bring a lot of as Jer would say extra stuff but he doesn't know he's talking about so he did find us an Airbnb and we took an Uber ride over here and I'm gonna show you the clip of the place so we just checked into our Airbnb I'm telling you this is how we eat because you know we've all our little luggage here so it's in a really cute little residential neighborhood if you can see out there it's a little I don't know three quarters of a mile walk down to the brewery where the Riverwalk starts and where we can place is immaculate and look at that wine so as you can see it's really adorable I am very very pleased with the accommodations we have a little bit of a walk to go to this brewery place which I guess is a popular tourist area where there are shops and restaurants and all sorts of stuff it's like three quarters of a mile a third of a mile down the street so we'll see how easy of a walk it is and from there we we can get into the artsy area of the Riverwalk which is the part of the Riverwalk that is supposedly beautiful flowers and really beautiful art and all that stuff and sort of probably the least busy tourist part of the Riverwalk so we're gonna do that I don't know if we're gonna go out on a boat ride tonight or tomorrow but that's our plan we're gonna try to make the best of it being stranded for two days extra in Texas at least there's no snow here so where are we honey we're under a bridge on the Riverwalk in San Antonio Texas and we've been walking from way way up there for about two miles now I think a mile and a half maybe a mile and a half in the sun thank God we have sunblock I think so okay so we decided we're gonna be adventurous and head down downtown and thank God we have sunblock but we didn't bring water so we're a little stupid tourist but we're not lost and this is sort of what it kind of looks like we're almost to downtown area so you start to see some of the the bigger buildings and high rises and and whatnot so it's really cool is that you behind me that's Mr. Jay behind me hey guys so Jay and I decided to take a walk and come down here to the Pearl area this morning and when we came yesterday we were really intrigued by this really beautiful hotel so we decided to stop in and absolutely love them they have this fireplace going it's just a really pretty courtyard environment and I think it's in the 60s which is called by Texas standards but not too bad by New Hampshire standards so wanted to just share this with you so this is the inside of the lobby area isn't this amazing this is an old brewery I'm like totally loving this wow I want to check out what the rates are in this hotel can you imagine it would be awesome it really would be be awesome I would love to stay here I wonder though Jay do you think this could be haunted no no you never know hmm I haven't seen anything yet is this a sampling for beer this haunted or not well I don't know if it's haunted but this is absolutely awesome I have to find out how much how much it would be to stay in this place isn't this like amazing yep that's the spirits so this is a this is unbelievable but this is must be like if you want to sit here and enjoy spirits this is an amazing amazing hotel has to be I'm gonna have to look at the history of this place I'm gonna turn around so you can see imagine that gorgeous old rustic lovely well maybe not lovely to some people but to me I can never tell if it's on or not I thought I would double check it but it's definitely on and that just a really cool park behind me so we've been on a mission because JJ wants them and we haven't found any ice cream for JJ yet now but I'm all of a sudden get hungry oh he's getting hungry okay I guess I have to take you to lunch so we arrived for jay cut the shuttle to go down to the long term parking with the car is while we were gone there was a while we're gone there was a nasty nor'easter and a lot of people are still without power and I'm hoping I don't know we don't have any snow gear with us we have no gloves we have no shovel we have no ice scraper and I'm alone in here well just about I'm waiting with the luggage he does that I just hope you can get the car out be Saturday guys it is a little up to 10 o'clock I don't think I've slept this late since high school but thankfully my son was able to get us all shoveled and plowed out so when we came home we just were able to pull the car up but look at all that snow when I left there was none none looks like winter when the land here's the view out my way oh my gosh those are my lilac bushes oh my gosh they all collapsed wow I wonder if I'm not gonna have lilacs this summer spring oh no my rose of Sharon over there has collapsed I don't know if you can see that that was a long that was a tall beautiful rose of Sharon and it's all collapsed I wonder if it'll come back my lilacs in the front are gone too must have been some heavy snow so we arrived home in the middle of the night Saturday well in the middle of the morning Saturday morning our plane arrived at 1 35 our car was buried I think you probably saw some of the clips but our car was buried by the time we got our car out of the lot we were on the road for home is 222 we got home is a little after 3 we got to bed at 4 a.m. so yesterday was crazy because today is my mom's surprise 90th birthday party I'm so excited so my mom thinks she's going to my granddaughter's birthday party a week early and she's buying it so far but so yesterday I shopped I did meatballs I did chicken wings I did big salads so we're just really hectic preparing and we're gonna bring it up to my sister Heidi she's got a bunch of stuff bunch of food and we invited a bunch of my mom's friends so like I'm like oh my gosh did we actually pull off a surprise for my mother it's wild so Jay and I heading down to go pick them up and head on over to my granddaughter's birthday party and off we go happy birthday to your mom happy birthday to my mom happy birthday dear oh my we call her oh my which is grandma in German even though she's my mom I still call her oh my because the kids all grew up calling her oh my so even your dad calls yeah so we're gonna pick her up and I get we get a keeper out of the trunk because we have a trunk full of food and she'll she'll be like wondering why we're bringing that much food for Paige's birthday party because my granddaughter we whenever they have a birthday party they don't have a whole lot of food so we never bring like food food so mom thinks she's going to Paige's birthday party and it's really her surprise no idea she has no idea yet so we are heading to the what is that place called there right by the lake where the party is it's like um it's his traffic but it's sort of like a kind of hall yeah for my granddaughter's eighth birthday woohoo and in the backseat is the lovely Mrs. Mahler and Mr. Mahler and my mom is actually going to have a birthday this week too and my sister how old is Heidi gonna be my baby sister's gonna be 56 I can't believe that yeah and my mom is gonna be guess what 90 we'll have to go out to eat and celebrate with 90 candles on a cake so that's it that's not answering me yeah yeah well that's what I was trying to tell you what page is good they got flooded that's when you didn't believe it here we definitely got her here but it was a little bit difficult her 90th birthday I just hope guys that I look half as good at 90 so check out the crown she's gonna kill me when she sees this video but that's the crown it has been just an incredible week all the way from San Antonio Texas back to New Hampshire right now it is March 13th and we are having our northeastern number three Jay just told me on the news they were talking about another storm brewing for next week I'm like I'm so overwinter I am like so overwinter but anyways if you stay to the very end thank you all so much for watching the video and I hope you enjoyed seeing a little bit of my mom's surprise birthday she did get suspicious when we talked about the last minute then you change when we tried to tell her that the place that the pages party was flooded and that my sister volunteered to have her house my mother just couldn't figure out my sister volunteering her house even though my sister lives like 10 minutes away from my son but you know with all of the little school kids and and all of that stuff so she got a little bit suspicious but I don't think she expected what she got so it was just an absolutely wonderful wonderful surprise 90th birthday for my mom and if you're on Facebook and you follow me on Facebook or friend or friends on Facebook you probably saw the album with all the photos I'll insert some as I'm closing this vlog out so you can see some of the family pictures it was really really a wonderful wonderful day and to be able to celebrate my mother turning 90 all of us together even though we were missing my brother all of us together was just extra special so next year August my dad turns 90 I am definitely blessed thank you all so much for being a part of the journey and for watching my vlog I hope you all had a great week and hugs to you all bye guys