San Antonio - nice!

I'm a bit late in posting this but two weekends ago we all hopped in the minivan and headed to San Antonio two hours away. Along the way we stopped at Lake Corpus Christi for a quick squiz and decided to take the RV up there when the weather gets cooler. It was a nice lake and camping area and well worth a visit.

Anyway...

In two hours we got to town and quickly decided that despite the heat we were going to just head down to the Riverwalk to while away a couple of hours (not realizing how warm it truly was of course!)

I was impressed. The Riverwalk was a lovely developed area that encompassed modern convenience with a real sense of history. Close to the Alamo and convention center, there were lots of restaurants and more importantly (and oh, so unfortunately, stairs! Traipsing two kids, a double stroller and assorted bags etc up and down steps in major heat was not my idea of fun. And you should have seen how MANY bridges there were to go up and down!).

Also a big drawback for me was the amount of people that were enjoying the same thing we were as a lot of areas of the walkways did not have rails to stop a potential fall into the river (even though it's only 4ft in most places).

But, enough negativity. The place was b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l and certainly worth a visit again and again.

We had dinner at a BBQ place where the food wasn't great but it wasn't bad either. But it was a great place for the kids and that made it easier for mummy, daddy and grandy to eat and take 5.

 Lots of bridges (each requiring many steps up and down!) and tour boats.

 On one of those tour boats for a quick chug around the Riverwalk circuit. (We were pretty warm at this stage as you can see!)

 Some of the views from the boat. I am sorry but I do not remember what this is. Of course, it's bells but..you know what I mean! The heat rotted my brain that day!

 The mosaic at the convention center. It was huge!

The next day we headed to the Alamo. What a wonderful dedication to those who served and died defending it. I haven't seen the movie and my U.S. history is quite poor but it was very interesting and my god, what gardens!

The outside of the chapel.

 I don't remember what this building is but it was very interesting to look at and so, I took a piccie.

 We got there a bit before the chapel opened so mum and I went and checked out the wall whilst Stormy stayed in line. The girls enjoyed running back and forth in what we found out later was a part of the Alamo grounds.

 Mum standing near Davy Crockett's wall.

 Another part of the front of the chapel. I snapped this before entering and having to put my camera away before entering.

 This area is to the left of the Alamo and this tree was huge and provided such a lovely feeling to the space. The barracks that housed the hospital is behind Storm. 

 Koi! Not original but huge. I mean everything is bigger in TX isn't it?

 Just strolling around. Such beautiful gardens....

 A quaint fountain that made it so lovely and cool.

 Well maybe not as cool as we'd like it to be....

We stayed a while checking out the gardens and then headed for lunch before drving home. In all we had a great 24 hours in San Antonio. I look forward to heading up there again.