Beautiful San Antonio

It's nice to spend a few days in one spot while on the road.  A nice break from driving.  We don't have to get up too early and we can plan to do things other than drive.

Today was such a day.  We could have driven into downtown San Antonio, but why bother?  There's a single bus to take right outside our RV park that goes to the downtown fairly directly...and back, of course.  So that's what we did.

The first thing we did was take a 1-hour hop-on-hop-off double-decker tour of downtown San Antonio.  That gave us the lay of the land, so to speak.  Here's Gerard sitting on the bus.

When we were finished with that, we visited the Alamo, a famous site of a battle between the Mexicans and Texans, where the Texans lost.  Today it's a memorial to those who died during the battle.  The buildings that were part of a Catholic mission are still here (no doubt repaired since), but built in 1718.  The Alamo battle occurred in 1836.  Here's Deb in front of the chapel.

It was time for lunch after that, so we decided to head down to the famous Riverwalk and find a restaurant there.  It's an absolutely beautiful walk.  It's built on the San Antonio River plus a loop off the river and it appears they're continuing to add to it.  There are tons of restaurants and shops and hotels that border it.  Gerard is sitting at our table with the river loop behind him.

A tour boat going by (which we'll probably do tomorrow).

It's just a very pretty walk with water features now and then.

These guys like it too.

A public works sign up around construction.  You can't read below the "San Antonio" in the lower part, but it says "Deep in the Heart".

The Torch of Friendship - built in Mexico and was a gift to the city as a memento to the strong ties between the 2 nations.

 Oh, and we had to try a Margarita and Pina Colada at the Mexican restaurant below.  We sat under the blue umbrella in the middle beside the river.

Tomorrow we're thinking of the tower and/or the river boat, and/or  La Villita.  We also have a reservation for dinner along the river.  But we'll probably make 2 trips in.  We do have Tibby, so we can't just leave him for hours on end.