Sunday night after Sea World, Kelly & I decided to go out for a nice dinner. We went to the rotating restaurant Chart House, which is atop the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio. A NASCAR friend of mine – Wyndi – met us there.

We had gotten somewhat close to the tower while in San Antonio but hadn’t really gotten close enough for the full height of the structure to hit me. When we drove up & got out of the car, I must say the thought of going up in the elevator (which you can see in the photo above) really starting sinking in. I am NOT a heights person so it is definitely very freaky. I wasn’t going to not go up there, obviously. I just had no idea how I would be when we got to the top.
I must say the elevator ride up was not near as scary as I thought it would be. Only 1 side of the elevator is glass and I made sure I was on the opposite side from that so I didn’t have to look out. The elevator ride did take forever. It was weird not knowing how much farther we had to go. (Although, that may have been a blessing in disguise for me.)
We got to the top and got out on the restaurant level. As I mentioned before, the restaurant rotates around so you get a view of the whole city. It didn’t move around very fast at all. The food was delicious. Of course, it was expensive but we knew that ahead of time. We all three got the chef’s special which was a crusted salmon that was stuffed with cream cheese & spinach and served over pasta with a little marinara sauce. It was delicious and has had me wanting some more salmon. For dessert, I tried their key lime pie. Not to sound like a broken record but it was delicious as well.
After dinner, we decided we were brave enough to go up a level to the observation deck in the tower. (The observation deck is open to everyone, not just restaurant goers.) I didn’t get too close to the edge of the deck, especially when we were outside. (There was a series of glass & bars that were obviously holding us in but my fear of heights kicked in and the wind whipping around just didn’t make me very comfortable being on the edge.) It was pretty neat to look around see all of the sights of San Antonio from that height. We were kind of kicking ourselves that we hadn’t come up there first or earlier in our trip because it was dark at this point and so some of the sights (i.e. The Alamo) were hard to pick out.
This was a very good ending to our San Antonio vacation. It was great to see Wyndi again and to have a very nice dinner while in San Antonio. I recommend at least visiting the observation deck at the Tower of the Americas if you are ever in San Antonio. If I go up there, you can too.
Click here to see my San Antonio photo album on Flickr.