Texas

San Antonio is a place that you could visit multiple times and probably see something new every time. The city has A LOT to offer! Diverse cultures, history, beautiful buildings, a colorful river and beautiful old missions. Our campground was a great home base for our explorations, although the kids would have been happy to hang out at the pool for four days. We did take advantage of the pool in between adventures.
Our first day we hopped on our bikes and headed up the San Antonio River to San Jose Mission. This is the most impressive of all the missions and good thing as it was the only one we made it to. We spent some time at the visitor center working on junior ranger books and learning about the purpose and intention of the missions in their early years. We checked out the church and then biked back to the campground. There we spent the rest of the day in the pool.
The next day we hung out at the campground/pool and set off on the late afternoon to check out the Witte museum, another free stop with our Discovery Center pass.
Our last day we did a full San Antonio day to see the sites. First stop was the Alamo, because you know you can't forget it! We learned about the battle and the history and moved on to the river. Once we got to the river it was easy to see why it is such an attraction. Beautiful shops and restaurants with colorful umbrellas, the beauty reflected onto the river. We hopped on a canal boat tour to learn a bit about the history of the area. The tour was great and gave us our bearings to explore after on foot. After the tour everyone was hungry so we stopped at Taste of Texas for dinner. The food was a bit disappointing but we enjoyed sitting next to the canal. After dinner we did the river walk loop, it was a great time of night to see all the bright lights along the canal. It was time to heard over to Frost Stadium for most of the family's first NBA game! Matt found some $10 tickets online, it was an obvious decision that we had to check it out! The energy at the game was awesome. It was easy to see that the Spurs fans were all too thrilled to cheer for their MVP, Victor Wembanyama. We were lucky enough to see him set a pretty big record scoring 50 points in one game!Read more