San Antonio-Tuesday April 3rd-Another beautiful day and we
enjoyed exploring San Antonio. We started off seeing the Alamo IMAX and it
was excellent. It really personalized
the conflict and it was moving to see the strength and resolve among those men
to stand up for freedom and be willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice. William Travis was quite a leader and a very
good writer. After the movie, we went to the Alamo
and learned some interesting facts from the docent. Davie Crocket apparently made it through the
siege with 6 others but Santa Anna didn’t allow them to live. Davie Crocket was a friend to the Indians and
yet he protected Andrew Jackson during an assassination attempt even though he
didn’t agree with his politics and treatment of Indians at all.
We went to the San
Juan mission and learned a great deal about the
Spanish friers who offered protection, education and Catholicism to the Indians
in exchange for labor. The arrangement
looked like it was a good thing but many of the Indians died anyway from
exposure to European diseases. Many of
the friers had holistic motives but some were power hungry in expanding the
Spanish empire and were abusive to the Indians.
In the evening we enjoyed strolling the riverwalk, taking a
boat ride and eating the best Mexican food we have ever had (according to
Janae).
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| Mark paid this band to serenade us. Great food. Called The Original Mexican Restaurant |
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