Do not adjust your screens.  Today we are time traveling a bit.  Yes, I have written about San Antonio before.  I just like to catalog our trips in the travel section as we’ve taken them.  They have become even more joyful now that we’ve been blessed with our daughter.  This was a few years ago but I’m trying to post them chronologically for my own memories.  It was our first road trip with our little one and she did great.  For my international readers who may not know this, the state of Texas can literally fit into the entire country of (my beloved) France.  So folks often drive long distances here.  Anyway, we made it in pretty good time and arrived in the afternoon to check into an old, historic hotel right on the plaza across from the Alamo.  Just as I cannot pass up a trip to the Eiffel Tower, my husband never turns down an opportunity to visit the Alamo.  In 1836 the famous battle took place and was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution.  Pictured here is what remains of the fortress and compound:  the chapel.  It is known as the “Shrine of Texas Liberty.”  Afterward, on a lighter note, we got some ice cream and sat on a bench to relax and enjoy the last rays of the spring afternoon’s sun.  We have a tradition of always eating dinner the first night at Casa Rio, the Tex Mex place right on the river with all the colored umbrellas.  Afterward we took a boat tour down the beautiful San Antonio river and our little one fell asleep with her rump in the air, literally sleeping like a baby.  The American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”  My world has become more beautiful having my husband and even more beautiful with our daughter in it.  If we never got to travel, I am so blessed to have a family of my own … I carry the beautiful with me.