To those people who don’t know anything about San Antonio: “Remember the Alamo!”.
That’s right - the famous battle for Texan independence occurred in what’s now central San Antonio - at the Alamo mission. For those who don’t know about Davy Crockett and his contemporaries, see Wiki.
We’ve been to San Antonio many times before (Trace even went to university here) so we’ve done all the touristy stuff that we need to do, so we got straight down to business: settling down into our free accommodation. Tracy’s brother Ross found a friend of his who had some floor space, so we stretched out there. Amtrak was very late (for a change) so we only made it in at 2am. No problems falling asleep.
The next day we left for Texas’s state capital, Austin. There were two people we wanted to meet up with in Austin - first of all Janet from our trip to Tasmania and secondly, Tracy’s friend from college, Kristi. We always said we’d drop by and see Janet when we got back to the USA and now we found ourselves in her neck of the woods so we dropped by for a visit. It was really nice to reminisce about being back in Tassie. She was just about to jet off to San Diego and was telling us about her plans to visit Asia.
Last time we saw Kristi was 1,000,000 years ago, so we had a lot to catch up on. Kristi is now married to John and has two pet cats and a couple of dogs too. Naturally we had a pretty good time. We spent a while talking about what we’ve all been up to and they were (at least pretended to be) interested in our photos. Little Red Bean was so cute it was an effort not to take him with us.
We had a couple more days in San Antonio to kill before heading back to Houston for Thanksgiving so we occupied ourselves by watching movies and going bowling both of which were great fun.
Tracy had one more friend to catch up with: Nicole. I wasn’t there so don’t know everything that went on (I’m not sure I want to…) but I believe that the Riverwalk was walked and snacks were eaten. I’m pretty sure that conversation was had and suchlike, but I’m afraid I can’t confirm or deny those rumours.
Anyway, we’re now in Houston - about to enjoy what is sure to be a huge Thanksgiving day meal. Just a couple of things before I leave you:
1. No news on Bart & Lauren’s baby.
2. Congrats to Liz & James!
3. Happy Thanksgiving! Be thankful or else…