Thanksgiving Road Trip

We decided to take a road trip. We left the Friday before Thanksgiving and drove to New Orleans, LA. There we ate at Cafe Du Monde- yummy beignets! Minh could only eat 2 but Kasey (and the twins) at 4!

Then we walked to Jackson Square and visited the Cathedral, and the Farmer's market.

We ate lunch at Laundry's- yummy seafood.

Then off to San Antonio, TX. We wanted to see the River Walk and the Alamo.

We are at the Alamo! Minh remembers it being a LOT bigger when he was in middle school. It is very small but it is a nice to walk through.

You will see another picture of the Alamo that has a tall building in the background- that was our hotel. Very nice, the top reminder us of the Tribune towers back in Chicago.

The night picture is of our restaurant we went to the first night- Casa Rio. It was beautiful sitting next to the river at night over looking the lights and watching the river tour going by. The next morning we took the River Boat Tour. Many of these pictures are from that tour.

The picture with the tree and the guy with the blue hat is of a tree growing out of a building.

Not sure why I took pictures of a duck but I did.

The umbrellas were of the restaurant we ate at Casa Rio from the other side of the river during the day. We learned on the tour that Casa Rio was the first restaurant to open on the river. They were so popular that they started the river boat tour to "entertain" their customers until their table was ready. A few years ago they sold the boat tour to the only company that runs it now. Cool!

We saw the Gift of Friendship from Mexico (red ribbon). Then the statue of St. Anthony- patron saint of lost items. Then there are other pictures of the river from the boat.

The last thing we did in San Antonio was to take the trolley to Market Square. Market Square is a Mexican market, Minh found a new Texas Longhorns hat. Off to Houston from there for Thanksgiving.