We arrived in San Antonio- Monday afternoon. We helped Catherine's parents get loaded up and we all came down to the river walk. We started our stay with a nice meal at Ostra. Catherine had blackened red fish on polenta... mmmmm. I had scallops - wonderful!
Tuesday, we enjoyed a nice exhibit at the San Antonio Museum of Art. It was called "lethal beauty", featuring swords and armor of the Samurai.
It was very interesting.
Wednesday, we visited the Buckhorn & Texas ranger museum. The Buckhorn museum collection was started by Albert Friedrich. Albert was the son of Wenzel Friedrich-famous for the furniture he crafted out of horns. This furniture was purchased all over the world. Queen Victoria and Teddy Roosevelt were two famous customers.
Albert started an extensive taxidermy collection which was sold to Lone Star brewery in 1956. When the brewery was closed in 1998, Friedrich's family purchased the collection back and reopened the museum on Houston street.
In addition, they have now acquired the Texas Ranger collection from the Witte museum and have extensive exhibits on famous Texas Rangers. They also have an exhibit on the pursuit and capture of two of the most famous outlaws from Texas - Bonnie and Clyde.
Today, we enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving brunch complete with home made tortillas. Even if it is not a traditional Thanksgiving food, there is nothing better than a tortilla fresh off the griddle.
Catherine and grace are enjoying an after dinner nap!
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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Nice to see Catherine and Grace carrying on another Thanksgiving tradition. :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you both! Glad you are having a great time!
ReplyDeleteGood blog today.
ReplyDeleteYou've given me new inspiration to get over to the Buckhorn Saloon and Museum. We've been talking about going for over a year. Time to get over there! We've walked past it many times on our downtown Volksmarches.
Nice way to celebrate and enjoy time with family!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving:o)
Looks like you had a nice Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it finally stopped raining for your visit with family.
ReplyDeleteAfter all that turkey, the picture of Catherine's fish dinner looked sooo good! We love the River Walk. It's such a magical place. :c)
ReplyDeleteI'd like to go to the Texas Ranger Museum in the spring, thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteHow did I miss this? Glad you had a happy Thanksgiving traditional or not. It's all about the thanks. So thanks for this good information on San Antonio, a place on our list for Texas.
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