SAN ANTONIO

For our 7 year anniversary we were able to take a weekend getaway to San Antonio. Grandpa and Grandma Stephenson were so kind to take all four boys for two days and a night. So many thanks to them because it has been a wild year and it was a very much needed break!! We had a great time, we stayed in the Hotel Valencia on the river walk. The river walk was beautiful and full of tons of people. I love to watch people!! :)Our hotel and room, it had a fun view!!Lots of pictures of the river walk.Trevor and I eating at a fantastic Mexican restaurant!!Going upstairs to check out the little village and look in the shops!! We found this really fun copper shop, I so wanted to buy a copper pitcher but Trevor was so good and wouldn't let me spend the money! Copper things are so EXPENSIVE!! Maybe one day when our pocket book is a little deeper!! Trevor loved to point out all the things that reminded him of the Philippines. This is a banana tree in front of one of the shops. He says they are a lot healthier in the Philippines.The Alamo...... " The fortress known to history as "THE ALAMO" was originally built by the Spanish in the 18Th century. Named Mission San Antonio de Valero by Franciscan officials, the mission occupied the site 1724 until it was closed in 1793. The mission compound encompassed modern Alamo Plaza. The church was never completed and lacked a roof at the time of the famous 1836 siege and battle. Today this building is recognized world-wide as the Shrine of Texas Liberty. February 25, 1836 To Major General Sam Houston ........Our numbers are few and the enemy still continues to approximate his works to ours. I have every reason to apprehend an attack from his whole force very soon; but I shall hold out to the last extremity, hoping to secure reinforcements in a day or two. Do hasten on aid to me as rapidly as possible, as from the superior number of the enemy, it will be impossible for us to keep them out much longer. If they overpower us, we fall a sacrifice at the shrine of our country, and we hope prosperity and our country will do our memory justice. Give me help, oh my country! Victory or death! William Barrett Travis, Lieut. Col., Commanding"

The Botanical Garden

Trevor and I had fun playing with the timer on the camera!! :)

A pineapple plant.

A rock turtle!