{"id":59,"date":"2008-06-05T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T13:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:36:39","slug":"el-mercado-alamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/el-mercado-alamo\/","title":{"rendered":"El Mercado, Alamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Julie and I headed down to Market Square and the Alamo. \u00a0We went to the Farmer&#8217;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&#8230; fond memories!) and then headed downtown to the Alamo.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"El Mercado by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2553044605\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3071\/2553044605_2864733bbf.jpg\" alt=\"El Mercado\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Alamo by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2553121966\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3047\/2553121966_0c0d79830e.jpg\" alt=\"The Alamo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We then went to the Mirror Maze, which I think is part of the collection of Ripley&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s trailer, though I may go see Indiana Jones. OR conversely, I may just nap all day, we&#8217;ll see.  We&#8217;ve been getting Red Box rentals from the Walmart &#8211; it&#8217;s a dollar a day for movies rentals, and we&#8217;ve rented 27 Dresses, The Golden Compass, National Treasure 2, and Stardust.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this morning I am going to go to Sonic and get a delicious breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/el-mercado-alamo\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Julie and I headed down to Market Square and the Alamo. \u00a0We went to the Farmer&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/el-mercado-alamo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;El Mercado, Alamo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,200],"tags":[240,326],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-daily","category-texas-is-the-best","tag-food","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}