I LOVE the Market Square!

In downtown San Antonio is a section called Market Square with several shops, restaurants, and street vendors. We love going to the square on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. It's such a festive place! All the vendors are set up with food, jewelry, crafts, etc. and of course there's music - mostly mariachis. One of the most famous mexican restaurants in the area is on the square, Mi Tierra. It's wonderful but my favorite is La Margarita (for obvious reasons) they have many different kinds of margaritas (love the prickly pear) and the best shrimp cocktail I've ever had in my life. It's great to sit outside enjoy some margaritas, listen to music and people watch. To me it just feels like you've been transported to another place....to me that place just feels like vacation. If you are in San Antonio you definitely have to hit market square and go through all the shops, have a margarita and enjoy some great mexican food! Our good friends Matt and Elizabeth Shreckhise visited us from Staunton, VA over Labor Day weekend and we enjoyed a great afternoon at the square.

The Riverwalk

We always take visitors to see the riverwalk, it's usually after we've waited in a long line to see the Alamo so some much needed margaritas are definitely in order! The riverwalk is a great place to relax and have some drinks with friends. It's a wonderful atmosphere with lots to do! There are tons of restaurants, although most restaurants on the riverwalk don't have the best reputation. In our experience these restaurants are definitely among the best on the riverwalk: Boudreaux's, Paesano's, Acenar, Landry's and County Line BBQ. If you stick to those restaurants you won't go wrong! However, there are tons of mexican food restaurants that still serve some great margaritas and micheladas and have seating right along the river. You can hear all kinds of music as you walk along the river and see all types of bars and restaurants. There are a few irish bars, sports bars, places to hear jazz, dance clubs and of course the mariachis. During one of our first visits to the riverwalk, Jason was serenaded by a mariachi

band...I think this picture is hilarious!

Jason's brother Jon was kind enough to come visit us this summer all the way from Richmond, VA. One night while hanging out on the riverwalk we enjoyed listening to a jazz band in one of the restaurant bars....who knew Jon liked jazz so much?!

The riverwalk is definitely a great place to have a good time in San Antonio...pretty much whatever kind of restaurant/bar you're looking for you'll find there! We're looking forward to going back again when it's all decorated for the holidays!

John T. Floore Country Store

I hope to post some of the wonderful things we have enjoyed doing since moving to San Antonio over the next couple of weeks. So definitely at the top of the list (other than seeing family) would be hearing some live music at John T. Floore's Country Store! We love listening to live music and we are so lucky that we now live about 10 minutes away! Floore's Country Store is one of the best venues to hear live music in Texas (in our opinion). One of my first times to visit Floore's was the Jack Ingram festival in 2003 (back before he went mainstream). Floore's is set up with a huge outdoor stage, lots of picnic tables and a smaller indoor stage with a kitchen and a bar. Floore's has been around for 60 years and has hosted legendary performers like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Elvis Presley and George Jones. We have seen some great concerts here - Robert Earl Keen and Randy Rogers Band to name a couple. There's live music every night of the week and we like to go by on occasion to hear some music, sit outside and enjoy some good bbq. We're looking forward to seeing Reckless Kelly, Charlie Robison and REK (again) in the upcoming months!

San Antonio, TX: Our Home

Welcome to our blog! This is definitely new to us so please be patient but we plan to post updates on what we are doing and life here in San Antonio. We moved to San Antonio at the end of January 2009. Jason accepted a new position as a Commodity Development Manager with HEB here at their corporate headquarters in San Antonio. This was definitely a BIG move for us. We had been living in Hamilton, VA but we decided to make the move and start a new adventure! We were very lucky to find a wonderful new home not long after we moved to the area and moved in around the end of March. We have been enjoying all the wonderful things San Antonio has to offer - the riverwalk, alamo, shopping, great food and wonderful people. I plan to post some of those good times and pictures in the next few weeks. For now here's a picture of our home just before we moved in. If you want to see San Antonio come and visit us!