Trip to San Antonio, Part 2

Saturday morning we all enjoyed sleeping in and having a leisurely breakfast at the hotel. Then we packed up all our things to check out.

We headed over to the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Despite the drizzling rain and cold, we decided to brave the outdoors.

We started off at Mission San Jose, and decided to go on the Ranger tour. He did a really good job, and we learned a lot!

The beautiful cathedral at the mission.

There are actually 5 missions, but after spending a couple of hours at the first one, we knew we couldn’t see them all in one day. We were also really hungry because it was just about lunch time! Thankfully, there was a Pizza Hut right across the street. J

The second mission we went to was Mission Concepcion. It was much smaller than Mission San Jose, but the cathedral was really beautiful!

Then we piled into the car and drove downtown to our next hotel. We unloaded our things and started walking downtown to continue our sightseeing.

We stopped at a mall on the Riverwalk to get drinks at Starbucks.

Then it was on to the Alamo! We had been warned that it was smaller than you’d expect. What we didn’t expect was the long lines to get in! We were a little bummed that we couldn’t take any pictures inside. L But it was still neat to see such a famed historical site!

We continued walking over to Hemisfair Park. The historical houses were beautiful!

Then we went over to the Tower of the Americas!

We rode the elevator up to the top observation deck! The view was pretty incredible. We also saw a 4D movie there about the state of Texas.

We were pretty well starved at that point, and getting weary of walking. The temperature continued to drop and the rain poured harder. We walked along the Riverwalk looking for a good restaurant. We ended up at a nice Italian place. I had chicken with lemon butter sauce, steamed vegetables, and a house potato. It was *so* delicious, especially considering how hungry I was. J

For dessert I enjoyed Crème Brulee. It was divine!

Then we started walking back to the hotel. That was an adventure! Walking several city blocks in a thunderstorm isn’t our favorite thing to do. We were so grateful to be back in our warm hotel rooms and to enjoy hot showers! Then it was straight to bed for us because of the time change.

To be continued . . .