The Alamo

We decided that since Best Boy is unemployed right now, and we had money and we were tired of being here in Big Hipster City, we'd go south for the day. Specifically we'd go to the Alamo, and be tourists. We're both of the Technicolor Disney Generation and grew up watching reruns of Davie Crockett and Sam Houston at the Alamo so we decided to check it out for the day...

For some reason I was expecting cactus and desert, not green and lush. I'm kinda slow and frequently forget that there was a point when we didn't have running water so when you settled some place, you settled toward the running water and water makes things green.. Duh, uh, err.. Scratch...
I'm not sure what's up with the face in this picture, but it kinda summed up the experience.

Here's Best Boy outside the Alamo...


Here I am on the grounds behind it... We couldn't take any pictures inside the place, but we did think it was interesting that the roof on it makes the inside of the place look like a mosque..
There was no roof on it during the famous siege, and Santa Ana was nice enough to burn the dead in piles in various places on the grounds, including in the place. It really does feel like you're standing in a crypt when you walk in there. There are big floral funeral wreathes everywhere... It's weird an kinda creepy. Best Boy is right, it's like Mecca for Texans.
We were there for the Fiestas commemorating the battle of San Ysidro... Or something like that. It looked like it was gonna be one hell of a party. There were bleachers every where and little old Mexican women out in their folding chairs staking out the good seats at 2pm and the actual parade didn't start until like 8pm.


So we checked out the River Walk as well.. it's actually below the main street level and wraps through a good chunk of downtown San Antonio... Oh, and you can drink down there while you wander around. Which we did.
The river is filthy... Ick.... All manner of crap floatin' in that thing... But's 10 degrees cooler down there then it is on the street level. Oh, and we had the worst Mexican food ever. It was like Taco Bell on worse and like six times the price. Ewww.... The Margaritas were good at least.

We beat it back to BHC early because the Weather Channel was calling for bad weather and we decided we didn't wanna drive through a Tornado...