visiting the San Antonio Missions

There is a number of little known Spanish missions here in San Antonio. So we have been visiting the different ones cause the kids have been studying the local history. Here are the pics.

Each mission had its own little history display the boys took in all the information at each spot.

The missions are about 200 years old, but they maintain them quite well.

My devoted little catholics. ;-)

Figuring out the history, layout of the place.

Old archway that looked like it was going to fall on our heads. But it held up nicely for the picture.

You can see the interesting spanish/moorish mix of design. Check out this door looks like something we should have found in Morocco.

Here are a couple of pictures of a unique auqaduct that supplied the water to one of the missions. Apprantly this is the only one in the US.

They had these neat bass reliefs of each of these missions and the lay outs of the ruins in miniture that the kids really thought were cool. Come to think of it i thought they were pretty neat too.