We wanted to investigate downtown San Antonio today. We started at the Historic Market Square which includes the Farmers Market, El Mercado and Produce Row. The square is about Mexican culture with shop after shop selling pottery, baskets, paper flowers and lots of colourful stuff. After walking through the many shops, we decided to have lunch…
San Antonio has four missions that we want to visit. Karen found on the internet that on Sundays there is a noon Mariachi Mass at the Mission San José. We got there about 10:30am and walked around and took lots of photos of the 286-year old mission. The Mariachi Mass is very popular so we…
It has been 6 longs months since we’ve been on vacation, and decided it was definitely time to go. After much investigation we decided on San Antonio, Texas. We booked our flight with Northwest from Detroit ($331.16 USD). We left Kitchener around 7:15am and had a very long drive to Windsor. Highway 401 between Kitchener…
We got up and headed over to our Toronto offices to put in a half day. We needed to get lunch and we had a recommendation from a couple of locals (Peter and Robin from our Toronto offices) … Oriental Gourmet House. They said it was a hole in the wall and it was but the food was…
I’m so glad we had a day of rest before concert number 5. We decided that we would stay in Toronto to save the wear and tear on our bodies driving back and forth. I was lucky enough to find a deal through Travelzoo for the Hilton Toronto ($119 CAD). What’s nice about this hotel is…