Don't worry my faithful followers I am back. My time in Johnson City for winter break came to an end last weekend. I came back to Baton Rouge last Saturday because my studio went on a 'field trip' this past week. Our studio professor this semester wanted to go on a pre-semester trip to South Texas, so that is what we did. The plan was to go from Baton Rouge to San Antonio and then down to many locations along the Texas/Mexico border to do a sketch problem. The goal of the trip was to explore how colonization of the Spanish people 300 years ago affects the culture of the area present day.
San Antonio was our first stop as I mentioned. We were in San Antonio on Monday night and Tuesday. We visited many sites there as well as ate all kinds of food. On Monday we got into San Antonio around dinner time and ate at Mi Terra. After dinner the guys from studio went down to the riverwalk to watch the National Championship game.
Tuesday was a full day of visiting different places. We started out at the San Jose Mission, then went and visited the landscape architecture firm, Rialta, followed by lunch at Sam's Burger Joint. After lunch we went to the San Antonio Botanic Garden.
After the Botanic Garden we went to the The Alamo (go Vols). Next was on to the San Antonio library, because is was designed by a Mexican architect, and then to a 200 year old all girls school that has since been converted to an Art school. After this we went to the river walk again for some dinner.
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| Girls School |
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| San Antonio Riverwalk |
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| San Antonio Riverwalk |
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| Main Plaza |
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| Main Plaza |
I really enjoyed all the places we visited. The history of the area and architecture was very interesting. More to come...
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