Well, I decided it was time to post again, today was my first chance to get out of Fort Sam for a few hours.. I went to the Alamo and the nearby riverwalk.. it was really crowded today because they were going to turn on a bunch of Christmas lights all along the riverwalk, but I had to leave too soon to see that.. I got a few pictures.. here are some of them.. I will keep trying to get more pictures out there.. I'm planning to get an iphone pretty soon, so hopefully I'll have a bit more reliable internet!! Anyway, here are some pictures of my mini-vacation, enjoy!
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Unfortunately by the time I got to this little waterfall along the riverwalk it was completely dark out, and only the light of a little riverside restaurant lit it up.. and the flash ruined the beauty of it, so you'll just have to be happy with a slightly noisy and dark picture for now..
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A cool plant in the park surrounding the old Alamo fort.
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I've seen this building before in pictures, but I don't know what it is..
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An interesting statue thingy..
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This fountain was really sweet.. it had flames coming out the midle, and water all around it and through it.. ;P
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This picture would have been better if it hadn't taken me so long to get my camera out and going.. there was a couple holding hands that was silhouetted down at the end of this breezeway thing.. it was kinda cool, but oh well...
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There was this cool fountain in the middle section of an intersection, it was pretty neat :)
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Yea.. it's a palm tree... hehe
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Parts of the park felt like a mini jungle!! the palm trees in some places made a little tunnel where the path went, and blocked out most of the light, and it was really cool ;)
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That's one BIG christmas tree!!!
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Umm.. a cactus plant.. yea.. that's about all there is to say about it.. ;)
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A neat little barrel cactus that was growing outside in the alamo park
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I have no idea what this building is, but it looked cool :) pretty old too by the looks of it..
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one of hundreds of pretty flowers through the park.
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Here is a picture of one of the walls of the original Alamo fort that is very famous in history :) It was really neat to actually see this history-filled place with my own eyes..
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The greenery all through the Alamo park was really beautiful!! I wish I had had more daylight for photography!!!
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Here is another picture of some of the plants :) The place was like a tropical oasis!! I will for sure be back there again!! Of course, the thought that while it's in the mid 70s and sunny here, back home it's frigid only makes it nicer here.. :)
Hope you enjoyed your mini-tour of my little excursion into the amazing city of San Antonio!!
More to come eventually!