Day 6

After another good night sleep in a beautiful home, we woke up refreshed for Day 6. Good thing too, cuz Elena's family is very welcoming and energetic! We went to get breakfast at a place called the Texas Cafeteria, where the breakfast special is $1.85, yes you read correctly, $1.85!! The portions were huge, and I could not even finish what was on my plate. After we finished breakfast, we took a 'tour' of an adjacent room to the cafeteria where the animal trophies were. Apparently the owners of the restaurant are avid hunters. They're all real animals! We had a fun photo session there. After that we went to a pie store, wow, did it smell good in there! We bought a couple of pies and headed to Elena's grandparents house, where the rest of her family were meeting for a short reunion. I met Elena's other aunt and uncle, cousins and their kids, it was a full house! I enjoyed meeting everyone, they all treated me like I was one of the family. Made me a bit nostalgic for those huge family gatherings in Taiwan, but I'm not worried, in a few years, our family in the states will be pretty big too! :) After we took the family pictures, we headed out towards San Antonio. The Riverwalk is absolutely stunning (it's a bunch of restaurants along the river below the street), we walked around a lot cuz we were indecisive about where to eat, but finally settled on a Mexican restaurant. After dinner, we hung out on the Riverwalk a bit longer, and decided to go up to the street. Not used to a city with so few people, we weren't sure how safe it was to walk around by ourselves (go figure, New Yorkers ... ), so we called the hotel shuttle to pick us up (I think it was 9:30pm, haha, go us!) We learned from our driver (who Elena thought was cute), that no one actually lives in downtown San Antonio (which we had gathered), but rather everyone commutes from the suburbs. There were also not many bars around where we were, so I guess it wasn't that lame that we went home so early. We hung out in the hotel and pondered over Luke 16 for a long time but could not figure out what Jesus was trying to say in the parable. With that, we called it a night and went to bed.