Today was road trip day. We wanted to check out what is known as Hill Country, which is north-west of San Antonio. (Think “City Slickers” … there are many dude ranches in the area). Karen was reading through one of the San Antonio books and she stumbled across the Brighter Days Horse Refuge. Their mission…
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…
3:30am sure does come early. We made our way over to the airport to catch our 6am American Airlines flight. Once again we stopped in Dallas and arrived in Detroit at 2pm. We got our bags and got home around 7pm to enjoy turkey leftovers.