San Antonio

Cheridy and I are currently sitting at the airport on our way back from San Antonio. We’ve been down here for the last few days taking classes for business and marketing at a photography convention. As usual, we learned a ton of good stuff that we now need to take time to implement.
We were at the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) Imaging USA convention. We spent every day from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm learning and now our brains are full.

One day we went to the food court for lunch and we met a homeless guy name Joe who we asked to join us for lunch. We sat and talked with him for a while. It turns out that he was a Katrina victim and he actually was down in the 9th ward during the hurricane. He said that he was in a boat and there was another guy with him. At one point they past someone that was in the water who couldn’t swim that was going to drown. Joe said that the guy that was in the boat with him dove into the water to try and save the other guy but they both ended up drowning. Joe sat helpless in the boat because he couldn’t swim either. Nobody should have to witness something like that. It was a good reminder to us of how good we have things.

On a less depressing note…
the weather down in San Antonio has been crazy. When we got here, it was 70 degrees and humid. Today it is 29 degrees and freezing rain. Lots of flights have been cancelled, so we’re hoping that we can get out on schedule. Texas doesn’t get ice storms like this…in fact, a lot of the homes have their pipes on the outside of the houses so there will probably be a lot of people calling plumbers as the pipes froze and cracked. I’ll post some photos of the ice when we get home.

UPDATE:
We just got home…our flight left on time and went really smoothly. We just feel bad for the people that were stuck there. Lots of flights were cancelled. We met people that were had been at the airport for two days and met others that were told that their flights were cancelled until Saturday and it’s only Wednesday today. Anyway…we’re counting our blessings!!

Here are some pics from San Antonio:
The Alamo

The Alamo

The Riverwalk

The Ice

The Ice