San Antonio

So we left the animal park and headed over to the DeWese's Tip Top Cafe.  It was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Thank you Rachel Bonner for the recommendation) and it was said to have AWESOME onion rings.  Well, if you know Dave, you know he LOVES onion rings.  So going here was a dead ringer (pardon the pun).

 Daddy and Charlie

Ben and I

 Onion Rings...they were delish!

 Ben liked them too :)

Now we're in downtown San Antonio

 Dave turned to take a picture and asked me to look in the window...  My response was "Why are you taking a picture of a desk and books?"  At my angle I couldn't see the reflection, as you can see by my slightly annoyed stance.

As we turned the corner to see the Alamo this coyote went running by us and Charlie yelled, "Hey Coyote, come give me a hug" :)  Fortunately he was hugging other people on the way so we quickly caught up with him and Charlie got his hug :)

The Alamo

 It was pretty neat, but the boys were not impressed.

 Here is Ben listening to the audio tour Dave bought (it was not worth the $6)

 Ben is wondering why he can't hear Papa.

 Charlie and a canon.  I'm not sure if this was an actual cannon from the alamo or if it was just the right time period.  Nonetheless, Charlie liked it-it was a big gun :)

From the Alamo we went exploring

 Silly Mirrors, Charlie thought they were hilarious...as you can see in the picture below, Ben was alittle unsure about them

Ahh...the famous 99%-I still don't get it.

So now we are at the River Walk.  It was really neat-almost like a little Venice!  San Antonio has rivers that run under the city.  So they have this river walk that is lined with shopping and restaurants.  You can see in the bottom right of these photos the river and the people dining.  The stairs behind Ben in the first picture takes you up to the street level where the roads are.

 Charlie wanted to take a boat ride so badly!  We could have taken a tour of the rivers on a boat, but we decided against it for money and time sake. But if we were to do it again I think I'd pay to take the tour :)

From the River Walk we walked at least a mile towards Hemisfaire Park (where the world fair was in 1968) and where the the Tower of the Americas is too.

On the way we past the convention center where a huge US map was on the ground.  We took the opportunity to show Charlie where Texas, Califonia, Kentucky and Tennessee were. So, here we are in Texas, in Texas :)

 I'm showing Charlie the tower and where the elevator is that goes up the tower.  You can pay $11 for adults and $9 a kid to go up - no thanks.

 Dave, Ben and Charlie are sitting at the bottom infront of the water fountain...it was really tall!  I couldn't even get it all in one picture.

 So at the top is a restaurant with a view of San Antonio.  It is supposed to be neat, but too expensive and not very interesting to the boys.

Lastly we stopped off at this park.  It looks just like "castle park" by Aunt Jenny's house.  We let the kids play for a little bit then we headed off to do some more exploring.

We were exhasted at 5.  We went to Rosario's for dinner (thanks again Rachel Bonner and AAA).  It was really good, the kids were DONE!  It was a fast dinner and then we headed back to Austin.

It was such a full, fun-packed day!  We made some great memories and we will do our best to remember the alamo :)