Our Day in San Antonio.....

We had a wonderful day in San Antonio....the weather was nice...a bit hot and muggy..but on the whole nice! We ran into a bad traffic jam coming in to town from Kerrville (which is about 60 miles west just off I 10), but good map reading from the back seat navigators and B & C's GPS, "Sister", got us there another way! Perfect!! We found a great place to park near Market Square a neat area of shops where we knew we wanted to end up (and did find some things to buy there!) and walked about 4 blocks to the Riverwalk. We were very hungry and thirsty....so stopped at the restaurant above for some good Mexican food. The pics below are from our walk up and down the wonderful, shady, interesting Riverwalk. We all love San Antonio!!

We took one of the cruises down the river....very entertaining and informative....

We stopped for a cold beer along the river....

We walked along the River after our cruise to the Alamo. We had all been there before, but it is such a wonderful and spiritual place to be in, we all wanted to go again. We wandered around the gardens and went inside the chapel to see where the women and children were kept safe and read the names of all the heroes who fought so hard and then were killed....and then their bodies were burned as was Santa Ana's way.

Just in front of the San Fernando cathedral, while walking from the Riverwalk to Market Square, we were lucky enough to see where some native people from the Canary Islands were doing sand art. This cathedral was founded by people from the those islands and these artists were doing the most intricate designs in SAND! The colors of the sand are found naturally in those islands and they bring the sand with them. We were very lucky to see this because on the following Sunday it was to all be destroyed. It would be blessed by the archbishop and then walked on by him with others following him until it would all be destroyed. It is amazing how hard they work on something which is totally not permanent. Maybe a lesson for us all. A wonderful man explained all this to us and then took us inside the cathedral and showed us around a bit. Non of the workers spoke English.

Where the remains of Crockett, Travis, Bowie and the other Alamo heroes are interred.....Just inside the door of the San Fernando Cathedral..... The wonderful interior of San Fernando Cathedral....very, very lovely and spiritual......