San Antonio, Texas
We have spent the last few days in San Antonio at an RV park that is very close to downtown. It has been a great location to explore the city. And I am sure we are the youngest people here by at least 25 years.:)
We took such an interesting tour of the Mission of San Jose, which was one of the original Spanish missions in the San Antonio area. The missions recruited Indians to live in their villages in order to help claim the area for New Spain and teach them about Jesus. The mission was fairly successful for many years. The National Park Service now protects and runs the San Antonio missions.
These were the "homes" for the Indian families. An entire family would live in a very small room. Kind of like living in the trailer.
This San Jose Mission was a huge compound...such impressive stonework.
They even figured out a way to channel water that would turn a grinder to turn wheat into flour ...AMAZING!
We also visited the Whitte musuem. It focused on the history and animals in Southwest Texas.
There are so many new things to learn from every musuem.
COWBOY BENJAMIN
Today we biked 5 miles down to the San Antonio Riverwalk. It was such a nice bike ride and a beautiful place to walk around and eat lunch.
We walked from the Riverwalk to the Alamo. We watched a short film on the history of this place.
We were inspired by the bravery of the soldiers!
After the 3 mile Riverwalk walk and the 5 mile bike ride home...we were ready for some time in the pool.
Tomorrow morning we will head to Galveston, on the Gulf of Mexico. Our first order of business will be to figure out a place to watch the Super Bowl...GO SEAHAWKS!!
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