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June 5, 2008June 24, 2010

El Mercado, Alamo

Last night Julie and I headed down to Market Square and the Alamo. We went to the Farmer’s Market and El Mercado, where I took a ton of pictures. (Mom, there are a bunch of Mexican dresses in there!) We stopped for margaritas and queso at La Margarita (infamous site of a long-ago midday accidental drunk-in-public incident during the Latin American Music Awards… fond memories!) and then headed downtown to the Alamo.

I lived here for five years and never took a picture of myself in front of the Alamo, so I made Julie take a picture.

We then went to the Mirror Maze, which I think is part of the collection of Ripley’s Believe It or Not attractions across the street from the Alamo. It was pretty cool. After that, we headed down to the Riverwalk and went to County Line for dinner.

County Line is a delicious bbq restaurant, a small Texas chain. I got the chicken platter, which is chicken, sausage and beef brisket. I also got it with garlic mashed potatoes and potato salad. Julie got the beef ribs with garlic mashed and a side salad. (I did not travel 2,000 miles for my health! haha also if I am paying $15.99 for a dinner it will be for all the things I love, the end.)

So today there will be more putzing around the apartment. I have the truck today so I might go see the movie. I was captivated by The Fall’s trailer, though I may go see Indiana Jones. OR conversely, I may just nap all day, we’ll see. We’ve been getting Red Box rentals from the Walmart – it’s a dollar a day for movies rentals, and we’ve rented 27 Dresses, The Golden Compass, National Treasure 2, and Stardust.

Anyway, this morning I am going to go to Sonic and get a delicious breakfast.

Tomorrow: Austin! All of us (Julie, Tara, and Cindy) are going to Round Rock to the Ikea, then I am forcing them to go to a bead store and Hill Country Weavers. But also to the ginormous Half Price Books on Lamar.

June 4, 2008June 24, 2010

Skeet Shooting

I worked here in 2005. This was prior to working with Xerox/Marriott.

NSSA Compound

It was during the World Shoot and I processed all the medals for the shooters. There were thousands (?) of them. I also did admin work.

Tonight Julie and I are going downtown to the Mercado and I will hopefully not be totally lame and actually take pictures there – it’s a riot of color and Mexican-ness.

June 3, 2008June 24, 2010

Alamo Heights, Castle Hills, Olmos Park

Yesterday I went out and about to all my favorite shopping places in San Antonio. First I stopped at Yarnivore in Castle Hills off NW Military Highway. I had never been to Yarnivore, as it opened about four months after I loved. It’s a great store and the girl running the place was really nice. They had a knitting machine in the middle of the shop, which is cool because a lot of times people are like, ew, knitting machines.

I bought some sock yarn:

Panda Cotton, Collinette Jitterbug, and Fannie’s Fingering Weight.

I then went to Alamo Heights and stopped at Nomadic Notions, where I bought some charms, and then I stopped at the Yarn Barn, which has changed ownership and I wasn’t really impressed with their sock yarn selection, which is basically how I judge a store. I did pick up some Regia Surf in yellowy blues and greens. It’s a cotton/wool blend that will make nice socks.

Then I stopped at the Rim, which is a new shopping center just north of La Cantera (a ritzy outdoor shopping mall that boasts a Neiman Marcus and Tiffany’s) and looked at the new Michael’s, which didn’t have anything that the Brentwood Michael’s didn’t have. After that I stopped at Taco Cabana and then at Hobby Lobby.

At Hobby Lobby I got some beads.

Today we went to the outlets at San Marcos and I got some stuff at Bath & Body Works. And an owl bag at the Charlotte Russe outlet:

Then when we were going down I-35, we saw a different Hobby Lobby (in Selma) and we stopped there and Julie got some stuff and I got some more beads, but also in the same shopping center was a new beads store called Beads 2 Go, and I got some awesome beads there…

Tomorrow I am staying at the apartment and putzing around watching tv, and then Julie and I are going downtown to the Mercado and out to dinner at County Line.

Mmm, County Line.