Cool but Sunny in San Antonio!!

This is one of the five historic Spanish Colonial Missions that were built in San Antonio by the Franciscan Order in the Mid 1700's.

Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo

Founded in 1720, the mission was named for Saint Joseph and the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo, the governor of the Province of Coahuila and Texas at the time. It was built on the banks of the San Antonio river several miles to the south of the earlier mission, San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo).
Its founder was the famed Father Antonio Margil de Jesús, a very prominent Franciscan missionary in early Texas.

After visiting the mission we headed out to find Irene's cousin Margaret and husband Fred's place in north San Antonio. It has been around 50 years since I have seen her. They have a lovely house that they have lived in for many years where they raised their two children. We had a good time visiting and catching up on family. The lunch Margaret made was very delicious and the tiramasu dessert was like the icing on the cake. Mmm good.

On the way back we stopped at the Mexican Market and really enjoyed all the bright colours and music. Since 1894, this area has been the public marketplace of San Antonio. Through the years, private businesses grew up around the market. Establishments on Produce Row flourished. In 1920 the building now housing Centro de Artes was constructed. We spent an hour or so looking around. Then we stopped at the Mission Concepcion and took pictures and looked around there. We were back at the motor home by 5 p.m. and helped with supper.

Dennis wrote:

Here we are in San Antonia Tx. Expecting to ride in shirt sleeves; wrong we have our electric suits on and plugged in as it is cold today about 42F. We are going to test how good my memory is, as I delivered a log home about 35 miles north of here. We left here and headed north, a lot of things had changed but I finally found the road and just made one wrong turn but soon got back on track and arrived at the house. Myrna was sure I would not find my way back to camp. We arrived back at camp no problem. We saw an old Catholic University house, known as the Koehler house and is currently being used as meeting house. The Koehler house was magnificent. Across the street is a blue and white two story Victorian house known as the mother in-law house. Kiddie corner to this house is a fabulously constructed Bethel Temple Church which appears to be many years old. We had a great day.