In December I crossed off 2 items from my bucket list: visit The Alamo and the Paseo Del Rio (or the San Antonio River Walk).
My family and I flew into
San Antonio, Texas shortly before Christmas in order to visit my in-laws who retired there two years ago. This was my first trip to San Antonio.
After spending a couple of days doing the usual Christmas related activities, we loaded up in my in-laws SUV and drove into downtown San Antonio.
Paseo Del Rio
San Antonio impressed me with its clean streets and tourist friendly layout. We easily found a parking garage (I saw little on-street parking) and set off to explore the city.
We wandered around downtown and crossed over the
Paseo Del Rio, or San Antonio River Walk, a couple of times. Unfortunately our agenda for the day didn't allow much time for exploring
the River Walk but the parts we saw were beautiful.
Shops, hotels, and restaurants lined
the River Walk tempting our appetites and wallets. We finally ended up at
Fuddruckers in Alamo Plaza where they claim to make "the World's Greatest Hamburgers." They have good reason to make their claim. The hamburgers were HUGE but my hubby managed to eat all of his burger, and declared it delicious.
The Alamo
After filling our tummies we walked down the street to tour
The Alamo. This was the highlight of the day for me!
First we posed for the necessary tourist picture. After all, can you really visit such a famous site and NOT take a picture?!
Picture taking completed, we moved into the
Long Barrack Museum where we watched a short video explaining the events of March 6, 1836. The Long Barrack Museum also houses a collection of historic items from this era.
As we strolled from display case to display case, I heard my son, Ben (6 yrs.), cry out "
Davy Crockett's rifle!" A beginner reader, he had managed to read the sign on the display. Last year we read a biography of Davy Crockett and watched the old movie of his life so Ben recognized Davy's name.
Sufficiently educated about the siege and battle at
The Alamo we entered the Shrine. The building you typically think of as
The Alamo, and see in the above picture, is
the Shrine.
Inside the Shrine everyone speaks in hushed tones, much like you would at a funeral. There are a few more displays to look at and read but mainly I just thought about the
men who wanted freedom enough that they died for it.
It's a sobering thought.
Visit San Antonio
I had a great time walking around downtown San Antonio with my family. In addition to
the River Walk and
The Alamo, we also visited the
San Antonio Children's Museum. I'll share about the awesome Children's Museum in another post.
After a day in San Antonio I checked off two items on my bucket list. But I also added 2 new places to visit:
The Buckhorn Museum and
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum. I guess I'll have to visit San Antonio again!
I highly recommend that YOU
visit San Antonio. The warm winter weather makes San Antonio a great February Vacation or Spring Break destination!
Have you visited San Antonio?
Disclosure: I have received NO compensation for this post. I had a great time with my family in San Antonio, Texas and think you will too.
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