What a great trip! We got to San Antonio on Monday around noon and got checked into our hotel. We spent the afternoon at The Alamo and exploring the River Walk. Dave said he expected the Alamo to be in a big field with alot of tumbleweed floating around.....but the alamo is right slap dab in the middle of town. We learned so much as we walked through the mission. What a great history lesson it was for the kids. The river walk was beautiful. We walked down to Market Square and went into some shops and the got the kids a snow cone....and we got a yummy frozen lemonade. We ate dinner at the hotel and had a lazy night in our room. Tuesday morning we got up early, ate breakfast at the hotel, and headed out to explore some more. First we went for a ride on the river boat along the river walk. This was great. If you go to San Antonio you should do this first. You can really see how big the river walk area is and learn a little history too. After the boat ride we headed to the Buckhorn Museum. The highlight of this was the Texas Ranger Museum. My very favorite thing we did on this trip was visiting the San Antonio Missions. Of course we went to the Alamo on Monday so on Tuesday we went to the other four missions. Again we learned alot! The names of the missions are Mission Concepcion, Mission San Jose, Mission San Juan, and Mission Espada. My favorite was Mission San Jose. This was the one that was most preserved. All of the missions still hold services. We had a great time. We all learned so much. I took a ton of pictures, so I'll have to pick some of my favorite to post here. Dave was feeling great. We walked a whole bunch and he kept right there with us. Mama and Daddy went with us and they really enjoyed it too.
Mission San Jose
Mission San Jose
The Alamo
This is how hot it was today!!! Wow. It is February.
We are looking forward to a busy week. Dave's sister Brenda is coming to visit this weekend and Dave's best friend from his hometown is coming on Friday for a visit. Dave is really looking forward to seeing them. Of course he has chemotherapy on Thursday.
I am going to work on my Kids market clothes tonight. My Daddy hauled all of my bags of clothes out to Houston for me. Hopefully I will get them done and he can take them back in time for the sale. I have shopped at Kids Market for the past 11 years. My first trip was the Spring sale before Abby was born in May. It has been a wonderful way for me to consign my kids clothes and buy them great clothes twice a year. I am sad thinking I will probably not be able to shop this spring. I've written about about it before about how Kim and I love that time out to shop and just spend time together. She and I are gonna have alot of (shopping)catching up to do when I get home. This a picture of the pile of clothes that has to be put on hangers and tagged.
