Road Trip to San Antonio

There are few things sweeter than waking up in the same house as your friends and being able to sit around in pajamas sipping coffee and chatting. Billy had to work a half day so Katie, Mari, Jon and I went to a Mexican restaurant...for breakfast! We had omlets, migas, some kinda veggie and egg mix, and ham. It was really good! We began to understand why Texas front yards have rocks instead of grass because by 11am it was already hot and humid!

We loaded up and picked Billy up at his plant around 12:30pm and had a boys car and girls car to caravan to San Antonio. 

We are staying at the Embassy Suites on the Riverwalk. Our suite has plenty of space for all 5 of us and we are across the street from the infamous San Antonio Riverwalk. We walked past a pretty building that Billy told us was part of the Majestic Theatre...I had never heard of the theatre but Jon said they have a lot of stand up comedians there. Down on the Riverwalk the temperature seemed to increase and the humidity was sweltering. 

We had a late lunch at The Esquire - the oldest tavern on the Riverwalk and home of the 100ft long bar. We ordered an appetizer of nachos and received a plate with 5 chips...1 for each of us. The Esquire had fancy cocktails and local beer and yummy sandwiches and burgers. 

We walked the entire loop of the Riverwalk and saw all kinds of restaurants and shops. Each bridge along the river was unique! There were a lot of tourists riding the boats and a lot of basketball fans since the Spurs were hosting the Oklahoma Thunder in the NBA playoffs Thursday night. 

 

We freshened up for dinner and went to Casa Rio for dinner. The Mexican food was great! We were stuffed from dinner so we walked to an Irish pub, Durty Nelly's, after dinner and they had a guy singing and playing piano and he had the whole bar singing. We hung out there for a while before getting lost trying to get to Howl at the Moon. We got our exercise trying to find the dueling piano bar, but it was completely worth it! We really enjoyed the band there and all of the members could play every instrument! On our walk back to the hotel we could hear tons of cars honking and people cheering...the Spurs beat the Thunder!