San Antonio

I got totally caught up in my Peace Corps assignment that I didn't even blog about where I've been for the past 3 days!! I'm having a great time here in San Antonio with Queen Janifer, one of my mom's friends from college. The first night here we drank wine and caught up- since has been quite exciting. We spent a day on the riverwalk downtown San Antonio, drinking margaritas and people watching. We went to the Alamo, I learned all about fiesta, and we had great Mexican food (again, including margies).
Bud and I, Janifer's husband, went around town and saw all five missions- got a chance to walk around at Mission San Jose which as great. We went Blue Star, San Antonio's contribution to my brewery tour, and ate amazing steak where I got to control the jukebox all evening. Some live jazz music helped finish off our night.

I spent about 4 hours at the zoo- how I can actually be entertained by animals for that long is beyond me- and got a great sunburn. Tomorrow I'm off for Austin, but without making some great memories here. San Antonio can have the feel of a fairly large city, but there are trees and the river right in the center of town with can make it feel like you're in the middle of the rain forest (maybe not that extreme, but close). Besides being a bit too republican for my taste ;) , I think I could spend a bit more time here. My hosts have been amazing, and I've loved having a fellow Agnes Scottian to catch up with.