Spooky date

Saturday night Mikey and I went out with one of his co-workers and his wife. They drove here from Laredo which is about two hours away from us. The guys bought tickets to a haunted house here in San Antonio weeks ago. I am such a chicken, so when Mikey first told me he bought the tickets I was so mad at him. The haunted house is called 13th floor, they have one back home in Colorado (Denver), I've heard back home it's so scary and if you finish all the floors you get your money back. Not sure if that is true but that alone had me scared to go to the 13th floor here. All day I was nervous, anxiously waiting for my mother to get to my house so we could leave.

We left the house at 6:30, because Pit Bull and Enrique Iglesias had a concert that same night and so we knew parking was going to be hard to find downtown. Which it was. Our tickets for the haunted house weren't until 8. So I am glad we left super early. Once we met up with Danny and his wife Rosie at their hotel downtown we started walking to the haunted house. As we got there you could hear people screaming from the inside and I'm pretty sure that scared me even more than I already was. I should probably add that this was my first haunted house and getting chase by monsters and creepy costumes is not my idea of a good time. In fact, I was almost positive I was going to have a nightmare that night. Haha! And so off we walked to the front of the line, I guess its a good thing we had reservations because if we had to stand in line I can almost guarantee I would have walked away. It was so hot once we got inside, within minutes we were all sweating like crazy. It was in a warehouse like building. As soon as we walked inside I felt like I was in a scene from Freddie Krueger. And that scared the shit out of me. My nerves built up the entire time until it was our time to go. My poor husband!! I'm pretty sure his hand is fractured in multiple areas. I have never been so scared in my life. As we waiting for our time to go all I could think about is knowing in about 30 minutes or so we would be out of here and off to dinner. Let me tell you, those minutes dragged and every minute felt like 5.

When you first walk in there is a video playing that you start to watch of course you are so scared by what's happening you forget you're in a haunted house. And then of course you start being chased and it's so dark inside you don't really know which direction to run. Once you make your way inside there is then a slide you have to go down and that totally freaked me out. This entire time I felt like I was in a horror movie. I repeatedly told Mikey NEVER AGAIN and I even threw in a bunch of I hate you's of course I didn't really mean, although I'm pretty sure I might have meant one or two.

There was a group of girls about 6 or 7 and thank goodness for them. They must have been just about as scared as I was because they sure did a whole lot of screaming. :) They screamed so much I knew when something scary was going to happen. And even knowing something scary was about to happen, I screamed just as loud as they did. I was terrified.

Geez, those costumes look so real. Every 'check point' we came to the workers would mention before we took off "please do not touch the monsters". I don't know about you, but being chased by monsters, I am not going to want to stop and touch them. I wanted to punch and kick them away from me. Haha

So after almost peeing on myself and 30 minutes of torture later we are finally almost out of this haunted house. I'd have to say my least favorite part (and scariest) was definitely being chased with a chain saw. Although there were so many scary parts it's hard to choose from, I was SO glad to be out of there!!

After the haunted house we had a little time to kill before part two of our date. So we walked downtown on the river walk (here in San Antone) and stopped to catch a bite at one of my favorite restaurants on the river walk. Rita's!! Let me just say, if you are EVER in the area or even live here and have not been, GO.NOW. Their margaritas are my favorite. But, make sure you get a big one! They are the best and it will leave you feeling gooood. ;)

Seriously, just after one of those bad boys you are feelin' it.

Look at how huge they are. I usually only have one, some times two.

So after some good Mexican food and cutting it pretty close (15 minutes) to our haunted carriage ride tour we were off to walk the Alamo. The good thing about living in San Antonio is there is so much to do and so much history.

A plus about double dating is there is always someone to take pictures of you ;)

This was actually our second tour. We went on our anniversary back in February but it wasn't a  haunted tour. They are so fun and it's so nice to tour downtown riding in a carriage. I wrote a lot of the information down so maybe we will have a spooky date part two and walk by all the haunted places we saw.

I had such a good time, mini heart attacks and all. By the end of the night my throat was so sore from all the screaming in the haunted house. We didn't get home until about 1:30 in the morning, only leaving us to get a couple of hours of sleep because of course both kiddos wake up early. But we had so much fun. Date nights are the best and it's such a plus that grandma only lives 15 minutes away. :)