We went to eat breakfast at a place in San Antonio that served chicken-fried steak in my endless but pointless quest to find the places that serve really tasty versions. Unfortunately, the stuff they served was quite unremarkable but forgettable. Further elaboration is unnecessary.
From there we went to the Witte Museum complex. As usual, our timing was impeccable in that a sizable portion of the facility is undergoing renovation and the next biggest building was closed because it is Sunday. However, the entire facility is gorgeous, at least from the outside. The parts we did get to see (a natural history section about the oil business and cowboys and an art section that was entirely paintings of flowers and brush) were quite nice but a bit scanty on actual stuff. There is an enormous space with about 50 items in it but the blank parts were neat.
Peg went into the museum gift shop and copped 3 sets of earrings in record time; she must have been in and back out in less than 5 minutes. I was very proud of her.
Since we were shut out of most of the facility we were not on site for too long despite there being free parking in a very nice parking structure. We meandered about in the adjacent park area and saw a gorgeous garden railway with a very pretty alleged steam locomotive. There was no steam or smoke coming therefrom so I suspect an internal combustion engine lurks within the innards of the locomotive powering the great looking train. They even had gate-controlled auto crossings.
From here we hit Trader Joe’s and then headed back to the Barbarian Invader.