We all headed down to San Antonio on Friday morning to celebrate my mother-in-law’s 60th birthday. My in-laws flew in on Thursday afternoon and we met my brother-in-law and his boyfriend in S.A. on Friday afternoon. We hit some new places and some that we discovered on our last trip.
Our first stop was the Havel camera shop, the nearest authorized service center for my malfunctioning Fujifilm 3800. They took a look at it and informed me that it’d be $138 to fix and would have to be sent to the main Fujifilm service center, which means that we’d be without a camera for roughly four weeks. Since we don’t get down to San Antonio too often, I had to make a spot decision whether it was going to be worth it to pay to get the current camera fixed or buy a new one. It looks like relatively comparable new cameras are going for about $200-$250 these days. I decided to fix the old one. I hope I don’t end up regretting that decision. My mother-in-law took plenty of pictures, so I’ll have to try and get some of those if I’m going to post anything of the kids anytime soon.
We had a good time on the trip, hitting our old favorite, Liberty Bar, on Friday night for dinner. We had an old-fashioned lunch at Olmo’s pharmacy at McCullough and Hildebrand. The malts were very good. The Boy dug weighing himself on the old scale they have at the front. We went to the San Antonio Children’s Museum on Saturday morning. It was a huge hit with The Boy and The La found enough things to keep her interested. The S. A. Children’s Museum puts the Austin Children’s Museum to shame. We had lunch at Schilo’s and tapas for dinner at Club Cohiba which is in the basement of the Havana Riverwalk Inn. Sunday brunch was at Mad Hatter’s, just down the street from the place we stayed last October. We managed to sneak out for a few hours Saturday night and hit Zen (beware of ridiculously long flash load time if you decide to visit their web site), simply because it was right next to our hotel and La Tuna, still one of the coolest places to grab a beer. Ever.