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Just a quick update - it certainly seems to be just an incredibly bad sprain. I didn't go to the doctor's, just woke up with it feeling about 50% good, and after some walking around (well, a LOT of walking around), it's 75% good. Just hurts under the ankle and bit behind it, and only twinges when I roll my foot too much one way or another.

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Just a quick update - it certainly seems to be just an incredibly bad sprain. I didn't go to the doctor's, just woke up with it feeling about 50% good, and after some walking around (well, a LOT of walking around), it's 75% good. Just hurts under the ankle and bit behind it, and only twinges when I roll my foot too much one way or another.

Wednesday, March 7th

Again, another morning where we got up got in the truck, an dheaded into San Antonio. We bypassed a good number of side tours I wanted to take. The last few days where we ended up with no light, made me do the beeline driving. That isn't to say we didn't have a side trip or two.

While we did go into Solms [MAP][INFO], it really was to get on FM 482, the Camino Real. We tracked down to the one and only real water pump that I know pulls straight from the aquifer, at Comal [MAP][INFO]. A sip or two later and we crossed a little area where the Camino Real crosses the rail line for a quarry [MAP]. While it doesn't seem much for a anyone else, for us, it's the crossing for one of my interested (The Camino Real, complete with Camino Marker) and Emily (an odd rail crossing at the marker). It meant something to US. :D

Back onto the freeway into San Antonio, we made a beeline for the San Antonio, Missons.

Now, one can't go to Espada Mission without a quick trip to the HAUNTED RAILROAD TRACKS! [MAP] According to legend, a schoolbus full of kids stalled on the track as a train was coming. Ka-smash, everyone died. Of course none of this is recorded anywhere, but this is legend, it doesn't NEED to be recorded. Anyways, ever since then, if you park in before the rails, facing uphill, put your car in neutral and let go of the brake, your car will roll up and over the tracks. If you put powder on the back of your car, you'll see handprints of the ghostly children who pushed your car over.

For the first time, it actually worked in my truck (it's never worked on it before on any big wide-wheeled vehicle I've driven), and my truck was so dusty that once we went up and over, we checked the back,and sure enough...there were some paw prints on the back. Awfully tall cats pushing us over....

Back to the Missions - instead of being a tourguide, I'll let the handbook of Texas Online be your guide:

Mission Espada [MAP][<http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/ss/uqs12.html">INFO]

Mission San Juan [MAP][INFO]

Mission San Jose (Although we skipped this one due to the fact that I may have family in there at any time) [MAP][INFO]

Mission Concepcion [MAP][INFO]

Driving into town, I took Emily sightseeing around downtown, showing the small sights and sounds, when we came to the Tower of the Americas. On a lark, we went up the 700 foot tower to see the sights.

I was kinda dissapointed.

Last time I was up there was to take pictures off the Tower for AWFW. I made a day of it. I bought tickets at the one little ticket booth for both the restaurant and the observation desk...I had a nice (and expensive) dinner in the revolving restaurant, seeing the whole town over an hour, went up to the observation tower, looked around from the inside of the lounge, went out onto the observation deck, stuck my camera trhough the bars and snapped pics that scared the hell out of me.

This time, we dodged around a "new and improved" area, where we couldn't find tickets for anything resembling the tower ride, then were bought wristbands to take us up to the tower, stood in line at the wrong elevator, almost had our picture taken and then sold back to us for $10 (I hate those scams), went through the service elevators to the observation deck which sold overpriced Cokes, had only about 120 degrees of the 360 available for viewing on the inside, and they replaced the bars on the observation deck with WINDOWS! Other changes included some stupid "4D RIDE OVER TEXAS!" and REALLY overpriced restaurant/lounge thingy. I really hate what they've done with the Tower.

We dropped down to surface level and decided to head to the Alamo. I wasn't sure if we could really make it. It was already quite dark, and the Alamo was a bit aways...but that was before I saw a new extension o the Riverwalk into the Hemisfair plaza. The trip down the Riverwalk at night is GORGEOUS. We didn't see much, though, since it was getting late. We came up to the Alamo, took a few pictures, went back to the Tower (it was now LATE night) caught some Chinese at a buffet my parents liked because the buffet I wanted to go to would have been closed already, and came back home to San Marcos, for a gentle sleep for the next day's adventures.

Wednesday, March 7th

Again, another morning where we got up got in the truck, an dheaded into San Antonio. We bypassed a good number of side tours I wanted to take. The last few days where we ended up with no light, made me do the beeline driving. That isn't to say we didn't have a side trip or two.

While we did go into Solms [MAP][INFO], it really was to get on FM 482, the Camino Real. We tracked down to the one and only real water pump that I know pulls straight from the aquifer, at Comal [MAP][INFO]. A sip or two later and we crossed a little area where the Camino Real crosses the rail line for a quarry [MAP]. While it doesn't seem much for a anyone else, for us, it's the crossing for one of my interested (The Camino Real, complete with Camino Marker) and Emily (an odd rail crossing at the marker). It meant something to US. :D

Back onto the freeway into San Antonio, we made a beeline for the San Antonio, Missons.

Now, one can't go to Espada Mission without a quick trip to the HAUNTED RAILROAD TRACKS! [MAP] According to legend, a schoolbus full of kids stalled on the track as a train was coming. Ka-smash, everyone died. Of course none of this is recorded anywhere, but this is legend, it doesn't NEED to be recorded. Anyways, ever since then, if you park in before the rails, facing uphill, put your car in neutral and let go of the brake, your car will roll up and over the tracks. If you put powder on the back of your car, you'll see handprints of the ghostly children who pushed your car over.

For the first time, it actually worked in my truck (it's never worked on it before on any big wide-wheeled vehicle I've driven), and my truck was so dusty that once we went up and over, we checked the back,and sure enough...there were some paw prints on the back. Awfully tall cats pushing us over....

Back to the Missions - instead of being a tourguide, I'll let the handbook of Texas Online be your guide:

Mission Espada [MAP][<http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/ss/uqs12.html">INFO]

Mission San Juan [MAP][INFO]

Mission San Jose (Although we skipped this one due to the fact that I may have family in there at any time) [MAP][INFO]

Mission Concepcion [MAP][INFO]

Driving into town, I took Emily sightseeing around downtown, showing the small sights and sounds, when we came to the Tower of the Americas. On a lark, we went up the 700 foot tower to see the sights.

I was kinda dissapointed.

Last time I was up there was to take pictures off the Tower for AWFW. I made a day of it. I bought tickets at the one little ticket booth for both the restaurant and the observation desk...I had a nice (and expensive) dinner in the revolving restaurant, seeing the whole town over an hour, went up to the observation tower, looked around from the inside of the lounge, went out onto the observation deck, stuck my camera trhough the bars and snapped pics that scared the hell out of me.

This time, we dodged around a "new and improved" area, where we couldn't find tickets for anything resembling the tower ride, then were bought wristbands to take us up to the tower, stood in line at the wrong elevator, almost had our picture taken and then sold back to us for $10 (I hate those scams), went through the service elevators to the observation deck which sold overpriced Cokes, had only about 120 degrees of the 360 available for viewing on the inside, and they replaced the bars on the observation deck with WINDOWS! Other changes included some stupid "4D RIDE OVER TEXAS!" and REALLY overpriced restaurant/lounge thingy. I really hate what they've done with the Tower.

We dropped down to surface level and decided to head to the Alamo. I wasn't sure if we could really make it. It was already quite dark, and the Alamo was a bit aways...but that was before I saw a new extension o the Riverwalk into the Hemisfair plaza. The trip down the Riverwalk at night is GORGEOUS. We didn't see much, though, since it was getting late. We came up to the Alamo, took a few pictures, went back to the Tower (it was now LATE night) caught some Chinese at a buffet my parents liked because the buffet I wanted to go to would have been closed already, and came back home to San Marcos, for a gentle sleep for the next day's adventures.