Alamo

2/24/2014 Today we viewed the Shrine of the Alamo where a lot of good men died fighting for a cause that they believed in. What I held as truth of the Alamo was wrong. I believed that Texas was fighting for independence from Mexico but they were not. Mexico had become a federalist government like her neighbor to the north, the US. Texas was lumped into a state with its southern neighbor making it one large territory. Texas wanted to be an independent state on Mexico. At the time, Centralist were trying to take over the Mexican government and Texas believed its best chance for independence lay with Federalists. So they fought the Centralists and General Santa Anna  for the right to be an independent Mexican state. Independence from Mexico came later followed by state hood in the United States. 
There was plenty of history to be learned and some artifacts. Most of the artifacts were destroyed after the seize. They did have Davy Crockett's long rife and examples of Jim Bowie's knife. We were not allowed to take pictures of any of the artifacts.
After touring the Alamo, we headed over to the San Antonio Riverwalk.

A mosaic under one of the bridges

After walking for a ways and then back because there wasn't much handicap access back up to street level, we settled on Landry's Seafood to eat. I wanted to cross the river to eat some Mexican but couldn't figure out the logistics of that. As usual when we eat out, we try to get something that we couldn't make ourselves or don't want to make so we ended up with these dishes.

Lobster bisque with a side of steamed brocolli

Patrick's fried seafood platter

My Chicken Andouille Pappardelle (chicken, andouille, mushrooms, sweet peas, wide egg noodles, sherry cream and sausage)

After lunch, we rode around the town center looking at the different sites and taking in some of San Antonio's city life.

Tower of America's behind the Alamodome

Another shot of it. 

 Then it was on to the trailer for dinner and whatever else we did. Showers and sleep.