Another Reason to Visit San Antonio!

Yes...we found another reason to go to San Antonio. And that is...


Mekeni is a Filipino restaurant in Universal City, 18 miles northeast from San Antonio and very accessible from the highway I-35. It is owned by a Filipina lady married to a Korean man. The restaurant used to be in the same building as their grocery store - MY Chock Dee - near the Randolph Air Force Base. The restaurant just recently opened in their current bigger location.

We arrived at the restaurant on Friday 6pm and we were the only party in there. The restaurant looks okay, nothing fancy. It smelled good, actually too good. I prefer the smell of food rather than the perfumy. Maybe we arrived
(Although I think they were cleaning it too extremely because the interior smelled too nicely.)

The food was still hot and freshly cooked (we came at the right time!). They were delicious - uhmm, uhmm!!! Specially the sinigang and the shrimp halabos and the laing...everything!

Everyone working there were Filipinos. Based on the way they spoke Tagalog, they seem to be first generation here in the US. So the cooking and the hospitality was genuinely Filipino. They even had pan-de-sal for taking out - $2 for 12 pieces!

When we were finished at 6:30, there was a group of Filipina elderly ladies in one table, a Caucasian family of about 10 in another table and a group of 4 young military-looking folks (just basing on their haircut) in another table.

The place gets packed on Saturday and Sunday with the peak on Sunday lunch. The variety of food is also wider on the weekends, so we heard, and as yummy as ever. So... we just found another reason to visit San Antonio!


Our main reason, however, was to attend Beth Moore's Living Proof Live event for the ladies at Alamodome. Beth Moore talked about us being heiresses of God. We forget that easily when we are enmeshed with the daily challenges of life. We got reminded that it is God who assigns our portion, that our lot is secure, and that we have a beautiful inheritance. We were urged then to go fight the beautiful fight!

Travis Cottrel led the singing. I closed my eyes and I thought this must be how it sounds in heaven when everyone praises the Lord! Wow! And here is the sound of 10,000 voices singing.


It was our first time for us in-laws (MIL, 2 SILs, moi) and a good friend Marisa to go to such an event together. It was fun inasmuch as it was refreshing.


Meanwhile, what is a trip to San Antonio without going to Sea World? The men and the boys were there since it opened at 10am. We just joined them at noontime after the event.

I got to see Shamu again but missed the Beluga whale because it just gave birth. So I finally went and saw the world famous Budweiser Clydesdale horses and got to see Busch, Bud and Diamond who were in the front stalls while the rest were behind the cordoned area. They are biiig and beautiful!!!


There was heavy rains for about 20 minutes in the middle of the afternoon. Other than that, the day was perfect - not too hot because of the cloudy skies.

Then it was time go home.