San Antonio

Aaron and I unexpectedly had a Thursday off together, so Aaron thought we should take a day trip to San Antonio.  We left Wednesday night after I got off work at 7, drove 4.5 hours, and stayed at Hotel Indigo.  We slept in the next morning until 10ish, then went to Lulu's Bakery for breakfast.  This diner was on Man v. Food, where Adam ate the huge chicken fried steak and the famous 3lb. cinnamon roll. So what did we order?    

You can the chicken fried steak above the roll.  Both filled the plate.

We hardly made a dent in the cinnamon roll, but I would have thrown up if I'd eaten any more.



After breakfast, we headed to the River Walk.  On our way there, we saw this building that was built as a fallout shelter.  I guess San Antonio is ready for a nuclear bomb.

The River walk follows the manmade river.  The city has developed it and there are restaurants all along it.  It was very pretty and relaxing.  Got pretty busy around lunch time.  Wish the pictures showed more of it.

There's an owl in the tree.

The Alamo

After we had walked the river, we went to the Alamo.  It's close the the river.  I didn't know much about it, but it's a pretty intense piece of history.  They've rebuilt a lot of it, and most of what used to be the courtyard is now shops.

This represents the line that William Travis supposedly drew in the sand and asked for those who were willing to fight to step over the line.  All but one man did, so the story says.


After leaving the Alamo, we wandered around for a while, then went back to the hotel for a nap.  I was so sore from walking all day.  We went back to the river at 7pm for a reservation at Acenar (a TexMex place).  We sat on the patio, which overlooked the river from above.  As we enjoyed our chips and salsa and table-side made guacamole, we were serenaded by a 3-man Mexican group.  They sang us a spanish love song and told Aaron to kiss me at the right moment.  It came with a price, but it was worth it.  Dinner came afterwards.  I ordered the pork and sweet potato taquito-like dish.  Came with Mexican rice and beans.  It was absolutely delicious!  Aaron had the goat.  It was interesting.  Not bad, just different.  After dinner, we went and got Gelato, but it wasn't very good.  Then we went back to the hotel, trying to not be too nervous about muggers.  The river is pretty well lit, but there are parts where someone could corner you or jump down from above.  It wasn't busy away from the restaurants.  We made back okay, though.  We ended the night watching the Rangers lose game 6 horribly.  Not the greatest end to the trip, but oh well.  We left the next morning to make it back to work.  It was such a fun trip and so nice to get away for a day.  Hopefully it won't be the last time we get to do that.