Since we didn’t get to The Alamo on Monday, we decided that we would do that today. Once we parked the car at the Rivercenter Mall, it was a one minute walk to The Alamo.
We walked around the complex and then made our way into the old Church / Shrine where there were many exhibits. We were lucky that a tour was about to start. We went into the Cavalry Courtyard where a very informative tour guide gave us a brief history about The Alamo. He was a great story-teller, and had us enthralled with the story of the Alamo, during the 13-day siege in 1836. After our history lesson, we walked around and took many more photographs.
By this time, it was lunch so we decided to head down to the River Walk and ended up at Casa Rio. Besides pickles with BBQ, I love all of the free chips and salsa that you get with every Mexican meal. We had a lovely relaxing lunch on the river.
After lunch we drove through the King William Historical District. It’s a beautiful neighborhood of huge old houses, and bed-and-breakfasts. It reminded us of Savannah, with all the amazing architecture.
Since we didn’t have enough time at the outlets yesterday, we decided to head back and do them properly. There are two outlet malls in San Marcos … Prime Outlets – San Marcos and Tanger Outlet. We spent over four hours there and all I have to say is that there were many many bags in the trunk at the end of the day. And you can’t believe how much money we “saved”.
We realized that there was a Marie Callender’s on our way home so we decided to stop and have dinner there. This is a chain of restaurants that we have only seen on the west coast, so it was a surprise to find them in Texas. We were so tired from all of our walking that we ended up taking home a piece of Banana Cream pie which we enjoyed while relaxing on the couch.
Just another day in the great state of Texas!
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