Going to San Antonio!

I really wish we’d brought our camera to this one. It was left in Chris’ car and thanks to that, you guys have missed out on some gooood shit.

We hit up the Market Square today..bellies first. Lord, did we ever hit it bellies first.

I don’t have anything from my Arkansas life to compare this to. There were booths selling food, a few booths selling jewelry, but more than that there was music. Music everywhere. Within a block of each other there were two stages set up, though I don’t think they both played at the same time.

The people were fantastic. Not too many tourists, just a few. Mostly there were families and older couples out for a wonderfully mild afternoon. The people were polite and never too pushy, it was a pleasure to be out in this crowd.

Food encounter number one was the decision on what to get for lunch. Chris decided we should eat in one of the two restaurants, but when we saw the line I decided we should try one of the vendor’s booths-which is what I had hoped he would decide in the first place.

Wow, this is what I really wanted a picture of. I picked the second booth that caught my eye. I wanted something I didn’t recognise, so I started looking at what people walked away with. The girl selling the food was really friendly, but she wouldn’t tell me what I ordered until I took a bite of it. It was cow intestine! And it tasted like dirt! Ugh. One bite and I was done for. No wonder the girl said it was food to eat with beer.

We found other sources for real lunch, but it was just Chinese food. Kind of boring so I’ll just reassure you that we did NOT have dessert for lunch. Though we did have desert! We had the best funnel cake I’ve had in *years*.

This funnel cake was HUGE, still the size of a regular paper plate, but twice as thick. And the lovely girl just *soaked* it down in powdered sugar. But the delicious final touch was the cinnamon she added. Oh yum! Chris officially earned the name “Sugar Britches” after this one. He jumped into that funnel cake head first and ended up wearing an awful lot of that powdered sugar before it was done.

And now for my favorite part of the day-the aguas frescas! I tried the watermelon variety and, oh my! It wasn’t too sweet, and the watermelon flavor was *real*. Real bits of watermelon, real seeds, only a little bit of sugar. It was sold in huge glasses, however, and I just didn’t have enough room left in my belly to drink the whole thing so I indulged in half of it and said goodbye. I’m guessing I can buy the ingredients for these drinks at the local grocery store so I’m content for now.

Oh the day was beautiful! It was our first outing in San Antonio, other than to various shops, and it was perfect. Chris and I are really going to enjoy living here.