Remember the Alamo!

I spent Sunday and Monday in San Antonio, TX. It was quite a surprise to see how green it is there. From the air you can hardly see the buildings for all the trees!

I didn't realize the Alamo is in San Antonio. We got there 5 minutes before it closed and squeaked inside.





Out back is this huge oak tree.














From the Alamo, we walked down to the Riverwalk. It's actually a natural river that circles the city. It used to flood so in the 1920's the city started a project to control the river. They did a beautiful job! It doesn't even look real. It looks like Disneyland. It's a tourist attraction. It reminded us of Pirates of the Carribbean in some places. There are lots of shops and restaurants and waterfalls.























After a decadent dinner at The Palms (which I understand is famous), we took a boat ride.
Along the beautiful riverwalk we passed this mall, which our guide told us is the only mall in America with a river running through it.
This is a yellow crowned night heron, a Texas bird that swallows crayfish and spits out the claws. There were also tons of big black birds that looked like crows but sounded sweeter but very very loud. When we walked out of the restaurant, we thought there must be amplifiers in the trees playing bird sounds.
While we were on the boat ride, we had an encounter with one of those copious numbers of loud black birds. Splat! Got three of us! Fortunately, we had 5 Star accommodations to return to for the clean up!











It was amazing to be treated so well in this economy!