Monday February 19, 2007 Presidents Day. Still here in Lakehills Texas until this Friday then we will head for New Orleans. Last week, on Valentines Day, we drove into San Antonio to find the Wal-Mart and Costco and get a little shopping done. We thought we would be gone for maybe 2 hours but it ended up being about 5 to 6 hours. In Wal-Mart I ended up getting my nails done, eyes checked and ordered new glasses, Dave had a hair cut and we did grocery shopping. We then headed for PetSmart to return Valley's booties that didn't fit well, then over to Costco for more shopping. Texas is another state where you can't buy hard alcohol in regular stores only beer and wine. The Costco here has a separate alcohol store attached and what's crazy is they give away free samples of booze and wine what ever their specials are that day. We then stopped and had lunch at Macaroni Grill and on the way back to the coach we had to pull over because Dave had a business call. The call kept dropping out because of all the hills that we were driving thru, that's why we had to pull over.
Saturday we drove into San Antonio to see the Alamo and the River Walk, the 2 most popular places to see while your here in San Antonio. When we got to the Alamo we were just in time to get to hear the story of what had occurred back then, very interesting story. After that we walked over to River Walk and walked along the river then we took the Ride the "Rio" San Antonio boat tour. After that we drove around a little checking out the place then headed back to the coach we figured 8 hours of being locked in the coach was long enough for Valley.
Sunday is our breakfast out day so we drove into San Antonio and went to a Mexican Restaurant, which everywhere you turn that's all you see is Mexican Restaurants. Just about every other corner is a "Bill Miller" BBQ fried chicken, drive thru or sit down, haven't had enough guts yet to try that place and probably won't. We stopped and got a GPS System for my car for when we are driving around these crazy cities. Texas has freeways that chris cross all over the place and also frontage roads and turn arounds.
That's it for now, Happy Presidents Day!