February 27 to March 5, 2006
It is a beautiful day. We got away about 9:30 and made it through San Antonio and on to Castroville. We have reservations at the Regional Park in Castroville for 7 days. We stayed here last year. It is a very nice campground and park. There is a walking trail that is about 1 mile long. Castroville is a nice clean town. It has traces back to Germany and lots of history. After we got here on Monday we really didn’t do much except to get set up and of course walk. On Tuesday, I got my hair cut and then we went into San Antonio to the Mexican Markets and did some other shopping. Wednesday we went to a Lake/Dam north of here. The water in this lake was a very beautiful blue/green. This seems to be quite a busy area in the summer. Thursday we went back into San Antonio to an upscale mall with shops we have never even heard of…even a Sacs 5th Avenue. Then we went to a flea market. This place is open 5 days a week year round. But apparently does not have much business in the winter months during the week. We found more than half of the shops closed and those open mostly selling the same merchandise. It was not what we are used to at a really good flea market. We have been told there is a very nice flea market in a little town south of here that is open weekends. We will be heading that way on Saturday.
We did not go back to the River Walk in San Antonio. We were there last year and it is beautiful but we didn’t think we would see anything different. The River Walk is about 20 to 30 feet below the city streets. The pictures of the River Walk in this blog were taken last year. They show how beautiful it is. Friday we drove to a small town west of Castroville and found a small Walmart there so we stocked up on groceries. Saturday was spent at the flea market. It is a big flea market but seems like each row has duplicates of the same shop as the row before it. We like rummaging through the “old stuff” like at garage sales but there was only “new stuff” at this flea market. We didn’t leave much money there!
Sunday we didn’t even leave the house except for our 2-a-day walks. This park has a nice walking trail around it and we walked there twice a day most days. The blue/green Madina River runs along one side of the park and it is a beautifully serene view. There are picnic areas in this park and this weekend many people were in the park having a good time and many were walking the trails.