We spent the Friday the 11th through Monday the 14th in San Antonio, Texas with Betsey's parents and sister.
Friday morning at 3AM we woke up to catch our 6AM flight out of Portland. I find Portland airport to be so easy for getting in and out of compared to other airports. I'm not alone, Conde Nast and the TSA have named it number one (See December 2007 bullets). We enjoyed a unhealthy breakfast at Wendy's that tasted fantastic. Our Continental plane was on time, and I slept all the way to Houston, Texas. I missed food service, and under normal circumstances, that's no big deal, but on Continental the food is actually award winning. Breakfast was Honey Nut Cheerios, a cranberry muffin, 2% milk, and raisins. Then, after a half hour jump from Houston, we stayed at Drury Inn in San Antonio where we saw this one: "Highest in Guest Satisfaction Among Mid-Scale Hotels Chains with Limited Service". Come on! With awards like that, who isn't going to get one? Awards are no longer impressive. That being said, the Drury was really good, three free drinks every night. Maybe awards matter a little.
We were in San Antonio, primarily, to see Frank Jennings, the Frank Jennings, my great-uncle-in-law, and coiner of the term Aerospace (no kidding!). Unfortunately, the day we left he fell down some stairs, so all of our visits were in hospital. The fall may have made him dizzy, but he still had all his wits about him. He's great to talk with. His wife treated us to a great little authentic Filipino restaurant/market.
Our hotel was right on the San Antonio River Walk, which is basically an American Venice for like 10 city blocks. It's really really cool. Lots of restaurants and bars. No safety precautions. It's amazing more people don't fall in.
The River Walk goes right up to the Alamo. The Alamo is strange. Hardly preserved at all until recently, it's been used as a storehouse among other things. The "preserved" grounds are largely rebuilt. It's worth seeing if you're in San Antonio anyway, but really the River Walk would be a bigger draw for me. Also, they have friggin' huge koi.
Of course we took pictures of all this, but we haven't web-sized them or anything. We'll try to post later.
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