{"id":908,"date":"2008-06-04T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T22:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2008-06-04T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T22:27:53","slug":"san-antonio-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/san-antonio-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

The band<\/a> played San Antonio this past Saturday night, so I took the whole family with me for a short vacation. We drove down Saturday morning and had lunch at Mad Hatter’s. The kids got the Kids Tea and The Wife and I got the High Tea, just as we did on our first visit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After lunch, we headed over to the Witte Museum<\/a> in Brackenridge Park near the San Antonio Zoo. The Witte is a small natural history and science museum. They have some dinosaur exhibits, a mummy exhibit, some exhibits on Texas wildlife, the HEB Science Treehouse, and some pioneer cabins. The HEB Science Treehouse <\/a>is very hands-on, much like a children’s museum. We spent roughly two hours there checking everything out. I recommend stopping there if you’ve got school-aged kids. There’s a Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit starting there later this month.<\/p>\n

The next stop was the hotel, Hyatt Place, a budget line in the Hyatt hotel chain. It’s a 3-star hotel according to Hotwire, so the accommodations are fairly nice. They’re going for a boutique hotel look. They’ve got nice new 42-inch HD TVs in each room. In general, we were happy with the place, although the pool was closed for construction and there was a nasty wet spot one corner of the room. The gig was at Jiggers<\/a>, a nearby dive bar. I passed the time before we went on watching MMAs prime time debut on CBS. An old college roommate who recently relocated to SA came to check out the show.<\/p>\n

The next morning, we got up and checked out Taco Taco<\/a>, a taco place that’s gotten kudos from Bon Appetit, Texas Monthly, Food Network and Details. It’s almost literally across the street from Olmo’s Pharmacy<\/a>, a place we checked out on another trip to San Antonio<\/a> back in 2004. The breakfast tacos were pretty damn good. The place was packed. We had to wait about 10 minutes to get a table. I had two chilaquiles and one chorizo and egg taco. I’d recommend both. The tortillas were very fresh, something that you find in a lot of places in Austin, but where San Antonio is unmatched.<\/p>\n

On the way back to Austin from San Antonio, we stopped at the Snake Farm<\/a> in New Braunfels. The Boy has decided that he wants to be a herpetologist, so he was in snake heaven. They’ve got quite a large collection of snakes and reptiles and have a small sized petting zoo and other exotic animals out back. The place was featured in an episode of Dirty Jobs<\/a> this year.<\/p>\n

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