Started with a fairly disappointing breakfast at Schilo's deli. The place had 4 stars on Yelp, and we waited 1/2 hour to get in. Then we waited at least that long for our food, which was meh. Best part of this experience was probably talking to the couple from New Jersey in the line outside. Don't go here for breakfast!
After our late breakfast we went to see the Alamo. It was neat, pretty interesting. When you realize what happened where you are standing and how awful it got for those people as they were trapped and killed while refusing to surrender you really appreciate what they went through.
Next, we walked over to the Buckhorn saloon and museum, got a beer at the historic back bar-Teddy Roosevelt and the rough riders used to hang here. Unfortunately I made the mistake of talking to an already drunk guy (it was about 1:30) who told me how his wife, who was over on the other side of the room herding their children was pregnant with their 6th kid. Then he told the bartender he was offended that he had to wear a mask while working. So basically this guy was more concerned about the bartender than his wife.
We fled that guy and headed into the Texas Ranger museum which is in the back of the saloon. They had all kinds of artifacts from the Rangers and biographies of some of the first and more prominent ones. We then went upstairs to see their collection of stuffed animals and horns. The owners of the saloon used to give a shot and a beer to anyone who brought in animal horns or snake rattles. The owner and his wife than made furniture and art work out of these items, as well as save some for exhibits. Amazing amount of things (literally 1000s of horns) and some really neat stuff, like 120 lb elephants tusks and 8 foot wide Longhorns. It was oddly fascinating to walk through all that. They also recreated a bar room from the 1800s where we found a couple of chairs so we can sit and rest our feet for a bit.
Next was an uber to the Tower of Americas-750 high view of the city. Think the Space Needle in Seattle and that's pretty much what this was, complete with a revolving restaurant. We had tickets for the 4D theater, but this was disappointment. The sign said they would be showing "Skies over Texas", which I imagined would be an aerial view of all kinds of places in the state, at 5. Instead they showed us "Rio" instead. This experience was basically getting your seat kicked from behind a few dozen times with air blown on you periodically while watching a kid's movie. Fantastic for a couple of people in their 50s with bad backs. Luckily it was only 20 minutes.
We had dinner at Mi Tierra, which is a well know restaurant in the Market Square area. There was a 30 minute wait and the place was huge, and nicely decorated with wandering Mariachi guys. They served decent Tex-Mex food, we've had better though, so you'd go for the experience/ambience, not the food.
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