Visit to the San Antonio

I have tried to make time for this post all week but it just hasn't happened until now.

As I mentioned before spring always brings out our desire to be out and about. The weather in Texas this time of year just beckons you to get outdoors and have fun, especially since in a few months it will be in the 100's and not much good for anything.

We left last Friday morning and headed to San Antonio for an overnight trip with several other families from our church. Our family decided to get there early since Scott had the day off, self-employment benefit. We picnicked along the way at Mother Neff State park and arrived in San Antonio around 4:00 pm. Our hotel was about two block from the Alamo allowing us to save on parking since we could walk just about everywhere we wanted to go.

Since we arrived early our family went to Hemisphere park and walked around, the kids used this time to get some very cool pictures of the water and sculpteures that are displayed outside. Then at 6:00 we met everyone else at the river walk for dinner and a stroll along the walk for a few hours. We headed back to the hotel around 9:00 and just relaxed.

Saturday we met the other families at the Alamo at 9:00 am. Oh, my! It was no small feat to get 5 people ready by 8:45 am in a hotel room that consisted of a sleeping area and a bathroom! Then we had to pack up, straighten up the room, and check out! Amazingly God gave us all extra patience that morning. We enjoyed the walk through the Alamo and there was an overwhelming sense of gratitude for what these men did to allow us to be free and living in Texas.

Next we were off to lunch and then the San Jose mission. The chapel and grounds were beautiful! They have a working water mill that grinds wheat set up and still grinding wheat into flour! It was great, even if we are not Catholics we were able to go there and appreciate the way these people lived and tried to honor God and help others. By 3:00 EVERYONE was ready to head home.

About 5 hours later we pulled back into our garage opened the back yard door to find a very excited dog! Cisco was faithfully waiting at the gate for us!