October 24, 2009 Today we went into San Antonio to see the Alamo and do the “river walk”. The Alamo was packed! Today was Founders Day so there were many booths set up with different civic organizations giving out information about the history etc. The only problem was that it really detracted from the Alamo itself. After walking around for a bit, we started out for the River Walk. You actually leave the street level and descend onto the walk. It has a lot of stores and restaurants and a very narrow river. The river looked filthy…I don’t actually know if [View Full Entry]

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October 23, 2009 This is what happens when we drive all day…we start to go mad…Example: Today we were entering San Antonio city limits. There was a pickup truck beside us and the driver had about a million papers and envelopes stuffed in his sun visor. I commented to Donna about it, “What could he possibly be keeping all those papers in his visor for” I asked. She looked over and said…and ladies and gentleman she was dead serious…”Is that a dead bird?”…in his visor?!!…Gee… I don’t think so!! I thought it was odd a [View Full Entry]

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Ok So it is so confusing when one travels across the country. The days start to run together and knowing which city you are in and what time zone you have crossed and what you have seen just runs into one big day with friendly faces and lots of open road. This post is for yesterday...or the day before... who knows! So New Orleans was cool. I love the city with the music and diversity. We had a the bingnet that I wrote about before but that sparked an argument about the prudence of waiting in line for them. ( Picture [View Full Entry]

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We had a long day yesterday. Woke up at 4:00 a.m. & left for the Fairbanks airport at 4:30. Got to Seattle where our connecting flight to Salt Lake City was delayed over an hour. Finally got to SLC & had to jog to the gate to get there in time before they closed the plane door. Got home at 9:30 last night. But you know what? It was an amazing trip. We have just spent a wonderful 2 weeks with our guys that none of us will soon forget. I hope you have enjoyed our blog. We have had fun [View Full Entry]

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En Septiembre de 2006, se celebró, la exposición A ojo de canario, en el City of San Antonio Internacional Center de San Antonio de Texas, una muestra colectiva de siete fotógrafos procedentes de Canarias: Viviana Adonaylo, Salvador Aznar, Iván Ballesteros, Juan Carlos Batista, Damián Borges, José Oller y Carlos A. Schwartz. La exposición, estuvo organizada por Friends of the Canary Islands-San Antonio y el Centro de Fotografía Isla de Tenerife, en el marco del Festival Internacional de Fotografía que se desarrolló en esta ciudad estadounidense. Canarias Crea colaboró en esta muestra, dentro d [View Full Entry]

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Coming up with fun things to do with your children on regular days can be a challenge. While watching the Foodnetwork channel I got an idea to see if any Candy factories or unique Candy stores was in our city. After searching the internet I came across the web page for the Candy Lounge. I must admit the colorful graphics of the page drew me in and the promise of 50 diffrent types of soda from diffrent places. How could that not be fun?! I wasn't sure how this was going to to over with my kids at first but I [View Full Entry]

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July 30, 2009 We decided to stay an extra day in San Antonio because our campsite is so perfect. No agenda. These are our precious moments: Dominic finds a cement ditch used as drainage during flash floods, to do tricks, and Mom films. (She wants Dominic to get sponsored because he is getting awfully expensive!) He conquered a pretty scary jump!! Ron stayed and read a book for a long time and played Marco Polo in the pool with the kids. Zachary was happy to play his new Civilizations game with Alex. He swam too, for the record. Clayton increased [View Full Entry]

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My Italian cousin Vincenzo has immigrated to the USA! He and Sara, are newlyweds currently on a massive honeymoon road trip from Maine to California. Beth and I met them in Houston and road-tripped with them to Idaho. I don’t want to dump all over my fellow Americans that live in Houston, Texas, but getting out of Houston was like escaping Hell. The day we met up with Vincenzo & Sara the heat index was 108 degrees and the humidity was horribly suffocating. An immediate escape was not possible as the traffic on the freeway had slowed down to a crawl [View Full Entry]

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We got up early early to arrive in Houston by midday, about 350 miles. Sad to report that I saw no alligators throughout all of Louisiana or Eastern Texas. I saw a black floating scaly looking thing in the water, but I'd be lying to myself if I said I was sure it was a gator. Maybe a log, or maybe a dirty gator. I did see a whole bunch of armadillos, squashed like tires and one completely upside-down, feet sticking up in the air. The name of the game from New Orleans to Houston on I-10 is scary scary bridges. [View Full Entry]

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Yes, I read the book! I was thrilled to find out my new neighbors wanted to see this show just as much as I did. They also had the hook ups for tickets since the worked at the Majestic theatre a few years back. We had corprate balcony seats. I guess that means you get access to the skylite lounge to order cocktails and a waitress comes around to your seat during the show. An intresting fact that my friend Leah shared was the very top balcony pushed to the very back of the theatre was used during segration times. There [View Full Entry]

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