San Antonio

Well, we thought we were going to New Orleans, but Ivan the terrible (the hurricane if anyone missed that on the news) had other plans for us. Our train stopped in San Antonio, Texas, Tuesday morning and everyone had to get off there. We were offered a flight to New Orleans, but since 1.2 million people in New Orleans were evacuating the city it didn't seem like a very good idea to go there even if that had been our plan. So we changed our tickets so we could take the train to Chicago the next day. In the meantime, Amtrak paid for one hotel night in San Antonio which turned out to be a very nice and beautiful city. We really enjoyed our day there. Above is a photo of the Alamo in the heart of the city.


We had lunch at Joe's Crab Shack at the Riverwalk.


This was the view from the restaurant.


The riverwalk.


We decided to eat dinner at Café Olé.


Janne is studying the menu. We finally decided to eat tortillas and they were very good.