There is a town 90 minutes away from San Antonio that I can best describe as Galena of Texas. It's a cute basically one street town that has many boutique and knick knack shops lined up on each side. There are cafes, ice cream parlors, bed and breakfasts and the like up and down the street making it look really quaint - especially compared to San Antonio and many of the suburban mainstreets popping up seemingly everywhere.
We, Ranj, our friend Meera, and myself, went there our second day in TX. This happened to be on Easter Sunday. On the way there, we looked for a cord for my ipod to play in our rental Cobalt. Target, Best Buy and others were closed for Easter - who knew?
We took out time and drove on to Fredricksburg/town taking in the hills and such. Just before we got into town, Meera and i spotted this old drive in movie lot and noted that it would be a cool place to take some pics. Nonetheless, we continued into town.
What we didn't realize was that even this town would be closed for Easter. All but about three shops were closed. We were bummed but out purses were happy.
To top it off, it happened to be a really cool and windy day and there wasn't even a cafe to step into to grab some coffee or hot chocolate. There we were walking around on a sunny but cold day lamenting that everything was closed on Easter Sunday in Texas.
Does this happen everywhere? In all of my years, i don't recall things being closed on Easter but I can't recall ever trying to anywhere on that day specifically.
After a a couple of hours tooling around, we went back to San Antonio and of course stopped by the drive in for some pics. This one was done on a tripod through a car dealership opened up wide and then some HDR and tonemapping.
More Texas pics in Flickr soon and after the jump.
I had the same experience this last Easter. I didn't realize that most major stores are closed on Easter. I guess it's the only day akin to Christmas where retail therapy is a no-go.
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