During the course of convention I managed to capture on video two videos about Robert E. Lee.  The first is from Dr. Idris R. Traylor, Jr. a retired Vice President of Texas Tech University and Former Knight Commander.  His address:

The second is a toast to Robert E. Lee given by the newly elected Senior Councilor William Dreyer in which he recounts the thoughts of John Temple Graves in 1923:

The Riverwalk is the night life of San Antonio. It is the place that most of us went to after convention to find bars and taverns to chill at. The the day we arrived, Vu and I ate at the Lone Star Cafe, just a little bit away of the hotel Convention was at. It was pretty good food and pretty cheap. That’s where we met Ben.

The first night, Ben, Vu and I were too tired to do anything so instead of heading up to the Riverwalk we just took a quick dip in our hotel’s 4′6″ deep pool and then went to bed. On the way home though we met a crazy street person who wanted to sing us a song. He demanded that we give him a subject to sing on and so Ben told him to sing about Atlanta, this is the result:

On Friday night, Vu, Ben and I met up with the boys from the Cal Berkely chapter (Albert and Joe) and their alumnus advisor while walking on the riverwalk and made our way down to an irish bar to spend the rest of the evening. The bar had a jovial singer who worked for tips. The highlight was getting him to sing Dixie to a bar full of southern KA’s as we all sang along.

On the way back to our hotel on Friday night, Vu and I bumped in to a pack of KA’s including Mr. M. Tom Faircloth. We spent a few minutes chatting with them and discussing the proposed changes to the KA laws. Most of the KA’s went back to their hotel but one brother (the Province Undergraduate Chairman for the Ammen province of whose name I forgot), another guy (who was really drunk), Mr. Faircloth, Vu and me. We walked in to the ground floor of the Hyatt and Mr. Faircloth in his infinite wisdom with words was able to convince the Ammen PUC that a piece of legislation was right even though many of the undergraduates disagreed with it. All the while, the extremely drunk guy kept interupting Mr. Faircloth in an attempt to support him and saying rediculous things like “You have to comprise, am I right?”, “You just have to listen, am I right?”, “It will be better in the end, am I right?” I wish I could capture the comedy of the situation better in writing this but, I fail.

Saturday night was pretty mellow too, Vu, Ben and I met up with another KA, Colin Cruser White and he took us to a cafe on the ground floor of the Hyatt (the Convention hotel). They had a live Jazz group there and we were able to make the aquantence of Executive Directory Larry Stanton Wiese’s mother, Sydney Wiese. We spent a couple of hours there listening to Jazz and drinking Lone Star Beer (wasn’t bad either) until they closed.

Larry’s Mom, Sydney with Vu and me the next morning at breakfast
After they closed Vu and I were walking back to the hotel and we cut through the basement of the Hyatt. On the way out we saw two guys, one was standing smoking and the other still in a tuxedo from previous festivities was sitting on a bench also smoking a cigarette. We approached them and talked to him for a minute and the one in the tux said he was hot. He then proceeded to take off his tux and jump into the man made river a few feet away from him. He got out of the water and stood there in his boxers dripping wet smoking another cigarette for a few more minutes before about 4 girls walked by. As they got close, the clothed guy ran toward the dripping wet one and pulled his boxers down leaving nothing but a naked body save for a shoe in his right hand placed in front of his genitalia.

My really bad camera phone pic of the guy with the Shoe
The girls thought it was very funny and kept walking and eventually it was just the five of us again. A few minutes later, two more girls walked by, one drunk one not so much. The guy with a shoe had at this point tied it around his waist and it was the only thing he was wearing. The clothed guy, not wanting to be outdone, climbed to the top of a waterfall, waited for the girls to get close, got completely naked and jumped from the top of the waterfall into the water below. The drunk girl loved it, the sober girl not so much ;).

Overall, the night life in San Antonio proved to be amazingly fun. I think this was largely due to the company of KA’s in the area to enjoy the craziness that is San Antonio night life.