San Antonio trip - Day 2 at the Alamo, River Walk, and San Marcos

Our second day in San Antonio, we had to visit the Alamo, of course. We were reading through all the names, and I found a Baugh had died at the Alamo. I'll have to figure out later if I'm related.

I'm trying to locate any information on John Baugh of the Alamo. I've done an extensive Baugh Family Geneology back to 1500's in England and 1600' - 1700's we were vary strong in the Virginia area. I've seen it listed that JJ Baugh was from VA - that he sounded the alarm before the final attack - and have seen a few letters he wrote. I was wondering if you had anything more on him personally?

Schelle Taylor
Houston

According to the New Handbook of Texas, John J. Baugh was born in Virginia in 1803. He served as the adjutant of the Alamo garrison,. He traveled to Texas in 1835 as a first lieutenant of Thomas H. Breece's company of New Orleans Greys and took part in the siege of Bexar. After the battle he was promoted to captain and served as Lt. Col. James C. Neill's adjutant with the Texan force left to garrison the town. Baugh entered the Alamo with the garrison under Lt. Col. William Barret Travis on February 23, 1836, when the Mexican army arrived. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/adp/central/forum/forum49.html

Elena inside the walls, it's very pretty inside the grounds, I wish I'd gotten more pictures.



And downtown they were having a street fair. We had some great Chicken ka-bobs.



Later on we ate in a restaraunt by the riverwalk, and again, I forgot to get pictures. Then, of all the things that Elena wanted to do, the thing she most wanted was to see the outlet shops at San Marcos. So we drove out and only got a glimpse of all the things there.

San Antonio trip - Day 1 at Six Flags Fiesta Texas

We went on a quick little weekend vacation at the end of the year because I had saved one vacation day that needed to be used up. We decided to go to San Antonio. I really wanted to go to Six Flags and ride the roller coasters. We had wonderful hosts, thanks for letting us stay with you.

We started by going on the Bugs Bunny log flume, because it was really hot. You can see Elena got a little wet as we were waiting to get on Superman. We also rode the rest of the big roller coasters, except for The Rattler, which was closed for the day.



We also went on the Bumper cars



At the end of the day it was hot, and we were a little queasy, so we went to the water park for a little bit. I didn't know they closed earlier, so we didn't get as much time as we would've liked.

At sunset, isn't she beautiful?



We even tried some of the carnival games. We did it for the fun of it, not because we thought we would win. (I really wanted to win the ring toss grand prize though, Rock Band 2 special edition).





These roses were our consolation prizes for not being able to scale the ladder.



We were pretty tired by the end of the day, but had a lot of fun.

Neuschwanstein

Neuschwanstein castle

We saw this castle on a trip to Europe before my mission. This is often the castle that is credited for inspiring the various castles in Disney resorts.

Favorite Vacations/ Most Beautiful Places I've Been.

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Our Houston Staycation

With Elena being pregnant (and some poor planning on my part, but regarding vacationing) we did not get off on our vacation to Disneyworld we had hoped to take. We needed some time away, so we're having a staycation.

Our first day we went to the Houston Arboretum... we saw millions of tadopoles, a few turtles, and pretty scenery. All of this surrounded by 5 million people or so.

Las Vegas Trip

I made a recent 3 day 2 night trip to Las Vegas/ St. George. My brother Spencer has been wanting to see the plasticized corpse exhibits (Body Worlds, and Bodies... The Exhibition) so my family planned a trip down and wanted me to meet them. I managed to get two days off in a row, and drove up to St. George post-call. I took the extra trip to St. George because I lost my drivers licence, and needed to apply in person for the renewal. I was especially grateful to stay at the "Hilton", in St. George.

We had a good time seeing the show, it was sort-of like review of some basic anatomy and brought back memories of undergraduate anatomy and medical school anatomy. We also did some shopping (I actually bought myself a couple pairs of shorts), and we watched the fountain show at the Bellagio. We also enjoyed ouselves just talking and hanging out at the pool for a bit.