Stories From A Life Gone Crazy: San Antonio part 1

Pete and I decided to take a trip to San Antonio without kids. It seemed like a good idea, but we are missing our children like crazy. In an effort to try to connect with the kids from far away we went to this place called Snake Farm just outside the city. It was this scary on the side of the interstate kind of place.

It was over-priced for a place where you just look at snakes, but we wanted to take pictures and video of all the snakes we read about with Jack. I will say they have all of them-- the top 10 most venomous, the longest guys, and your every day cobras, vipers, and etc. They had a small gift shop with a back room which was isolated and included a deep well or pit-- if you leaned over and looked in you would see that it was a rattlesnake pit. I felt like there were creepy crawlies all over my skin. It felt like the kind of place where you would either die or find a dead body--eerie!! We called Jack to let him know that we had seen all these snakes, but it didn't go over too well. Instead of being excited that we had lots of pictures and video of his favorite snakes he was so so upset that we didn't bring him, and he just started crying. He wouldn't talk to us for the rest of the day.

Then we went to eat at a German restaurant in New Braunfels, TX-Friesenhaus- The town has a very strong German heritage: streets, shops,festivals- all with German names- and we heard a few people speaking German. It wasn't something that we expected when we came to Texas. We were excited and attempted to read all the signs the way they would be read in Germany. I think we are getting better, but then again it was just the two of us in the car with no one around.

We have done the regular San Antonio touristy stuff too. We visited the Alamo, saw the missions, walked around the King William Historic District, ended up at the Guenther House, walked along parts of the river, dined on the Riverwalk, ate at Rosario's, walked around the courthouse, the Fernado church, and La Villita.

The pictures from the first day are pretty numerous but since then not as many. I am pretty sure I have been overdoing it and am starting to feel it. Still, I figured we were here so we may as well see as much as we could. The Japanese Tea Garden was closed and Pete didn't want to pay $8 to see the Botanical Gardens, I don't think walking around 98 degree weather just to look at flowers appealed to him. Wonder why? :)