San Antonio, the riverwalk & the Alamo

Woke up at 7am to take a trip down to Greg & Liz's place (for those who don't know, Greg is our Guild Leader and author of Real Life Comics which is where I first heard about World of Warcraft) The drive down was about 4 hours, taking the scenic route (read: not the interstate), and it was cool to look about the countryside. It was an odd feeling seeing the horizon flat in the distance and having it be land rather than water. I didn't notice that in Tennessee at all, I think either there were hills in the distance or trees closer up.

We met up with Mitsuragi at Greg & Liz's too, so there were 7 of us all together. Since it was pushing 2pm we were all feeling a bit on the hungry side so we jumped into two cars and ended up (after a slight delay while we waited for Greg) at a place called Ruby's that served Bar-B-Que - literally. Served on paper, with plastic knives & forks. It was a dining experience. Flavoursome too. I'd like to point out here that Greg is drinking cream soda, NOT pepsi.

We headed into San Antonio and went down to the riverwalk which is a walk along the river (strangely enough!) and sided by cafe's, bars, water features, historic buildings etc. Beautiful.

We walked up to the Alamo, the site of a famous last stand, and where Davy Crockett died. Only one woman, one man and one child survived on the Texan side. We had a browse through the gift shop, and then back down to the riverwalk to go down the other side.
Back at the riverwalk we took the "tour" on a water taxi with a funny mexican tour guide called T.K. who put pauses in his spiel where others wouldn't necessarily. "Welcome to our beautiful city of..... San Antonio"

The tour finished just on dark and we were all getting thirsty, so we stopped at Ritas where we shared a table with an Australian dermatologist named Brian.
Margaritas were their specialty, but I had a bit of a headache from the humidity (did I mention it was hot and very humid?) so I had a coke and some panadol which sorted that out.
I got Thragg's wife to take one last pic of the bunch of us
and we headed back to the cars after that - one of which we temporarily lost because of the weird parking building. We made it back home at about 2.30am. I had a blast :-)