Game Day in San Antonio

We really enjoyed our bartender the night before at SoHo and had asked him for food recommendations away from the River walk, so for our first stop of the morning everyone squeezed into our car and we drove about 15 minutes, literally across the tracks to Rolando’s Super Taco.  JJ and I both had the bartender’s recommendation, the Rolando which was one of the best soft flour tortillas I’ve ever had filled with egg, cheese, guacamole and potato.  The boys all got various meat filled tacos.  So good.

Back downtown, we wandered over to the Alamo which was smaller than I thought it would be.

We wandered the Riverwalk and grabbed an early afternoon beverage together at Acenar, the bar we had tried to go to the night before.  Then the boys abandoned me & JJ in search of good BBQ (also recommended by the bartender) while JJ & I scored a table on the riverwalk for our late lunch/pre-game meal (along with prickly pear margaritas).  After lunch we walked along river northwards on what they call the Museum Reach.  I had read there were cute artisan shop on this stretch but all we saw were installations along the way (still cool).

It was nice to get away from the super overcrowded sections of teh walk – we found their version of the Ballard locks and even Jones Ave.  We walked to the end at Pearl Brewery, where I had a grand master plan for the boys to pick us up there in their way back but miscommunication led them back to the hotel.  We went through a couple shops at the end, then called a cab to meet them back in the main area of town.

We met up at the Hyatt where half the group was staying for pre-game beverages before making our way into the Alamodome for the game.  We had club level seats which was nice to get out of the major crowds.  We did a loop on that level and then I wandered the lower level for a loop by myself (I love looking at arenas).  Husky Purple was definitely outnumbered by Baylor Green but still a pretty impressive showing by Dawg fans.  As expected, the game was an offensive shootout which I like, but even this got a little ridiculous.  Final score would make you think it was a basketball game.

Afterwards, we drowned our sorrows at a nearby sports bar on the riverwalk before crashing late that night.