Well, its been San Antonio all week. We arrived on Sunday. At first I was dissappointment with my very limited exposure to the city, but view of the city was limited to my hotel and the grocery store close by. Travelling with kids is very interesting and intense and it has been an experience. Of course, though, the kids make everything much more fun.

So let's see, we've done the San Antonio thing, the River Walk, the Alamo and the Missions, and I think the city is really nice and they've done a very good job for tourists. The Alamo was a very interesting and moving experience. My wife's Texan, so it was a quasi-religious experience for her. For that reason, the visit was less of a touristy thing and more of a pilgrimage--very intense.

We visited two of the three main missions, unfortunately it was raining hard so we had to view them from the comfort of our car. They were awe-inspiring from a distance. At first, we were taken aback by the fact that the missions were right in the middle of everything else, with one of them, there was a Pizza Hut around the corner, etc, but then we kind'a liked the fact that these historic momuments were a part of the everyday lives of these people here.