Tuesday Part #3... Boat Ride and Dinner

After the Alamo performance, we returned to the hotel for an hour to relax and change out of our polos and black pants. As I was sitting in my hotel room during this break time, I suddenly heard a loud ruckus out in the hall that... sort of?... sounded like music. Upon investigating, I found Melissa H., Erin W., Kelly M., Andrea A., Angela L., and Emily K. in the hall, all dressed up for dinner, happily performing on the wide variety of musical instruments that Erin had purchased at the Market this morning (I told you that would come up again!). Of course, this required not just a photo, but a video for the blog. For the record... the video cuts out just before Emily falls over. :)

Once everyone had freshened up, we headed down to the Riverwalk for a guided boat tour. It was nice to see the entire length of the River, as well as learn about the history of some of the buildings.

Our boat... as best I can make out, we have Aric A., Becky W., Austin S., Megan C., ???, Corey A., Jake K., Aaron C., Jessica F., Tyler B., Kyler F., Jeff B., Anthony A., and Molly W. Phew!


One of the other four boats that we filled as we pass on the river. I'm not even going to start listing names for this one!


We ended the evening with a VERY big dinner at Casa Rio, a popular Mexican restaurant along the Riverwalk. They had a huge party room set up just for us, and we were served a three-course dinner including chips, dip, guacamole salad, enchiladas, tamales, and a variety of other Mexican foods. YUM! Below, a picture overlooking the outdoor area of the restaurant. If you notice... it's the same view as the picture at the top of this blog that I arbitrarily downloaded off the internet as a picture of San Antonio. A little darker in my picture, but you get the idea!


All in all, a very busy day! The kids had a great time, and what a fantastic experience to perform at these historic sites for such receptive audiences. After all this hard work though, we are definitely ready for a relaxing day at the Twin Elm Ranch tomorrow (many of us prepared with new cowboy hats!). Well, this concludes the three-part edition of Tuesday... see you tomorrow!