Recently, Colene and I took a trip out to San Antonio, TX for a few days for a school conference that she was attending. We treated it as a mini vacation, with the benefit that I had also scheduled several appearances along the way to share music with different churches. We left on a Wednesday and arrived in Jennings, LA that evening. That is where we made our first stop: at Bethel Baptist Church. The youth minister, Blaine was nice enough to invite me to play a mini-concert for the guys and girls that night. Even though it was spring break, there was an awesome turnout of +100 people! And these LA kids sure no how to rock it out! If they have this much energy with a chilled-out acoustic singer/songwriter, dare I ask what would happen if we got a high energy rock band in here?! I always wanted to be in a high energy rock band (sigh), but that’s another story…Here’s some pics from the show!

After staying the night just outside of Lake Charles, LA, we woke up the next morning and crossed into Texas. We drove through Houston and arrived in San Antonio later that same day.

I know Texans love to talk about Texas, and with this being our second trip out here, I’ve gotta say there’s something contagious about this place. You can literally feel the pride oozing out of everything and everyone.

Next on the agenda was a 3 hour Thursday night set at a very, very cool coffee shop located in downtown San Antonio called The Foundry. If coffee shops are all about atmosphere, then this one takes the cake. Oh and the best Costa Rican drip in the state. The funniest part about it was that 15 minutes after I started my set, I noticed all of these kids (6-12 yrs old) started piling in each with a guitar in hand. And then the place really began to get packed out with more kids and parents. So eventually, I decided to ask from stage, “Hey what’s with all the kids and guitars?” A very panic stricken woman looked at me and said, “We’re having a guitar recital! How much longer are you going to be?!” Suddenly it all made sense. I had driven almost 1000 miles to play a gig that I had been double booked in conjunction with a guitar recital for kids! Now, who do you guess backed down first in this predicament: the lone ranger singer/songwriter or the room full of parents eager to hear their son or daughters failed attempt at Moon River? You guessed it – I handed over the stage and for the next 45 min or so, Susie or Timmy or whoever took turns wowing an audience full of proud parents holding camcorders.  It was all very humorous at the time, and still gets funnier every time I think about it. Check out the video below:J

The next couple days were very relaxing. During the day, Colene had seminars to go to and then during the evenings we went out on the River Walk (which they had dyed green for St. Patty's Day) in downtown San Antonio which was walking distance from our hotel (The St. Anthony). Joe’s crab shack’s Crab Nachos stole the show on 2 separate occasions during our stay. A new favorite in the Trent household (in case you didn’t know at this point, my last name is actually Trent – David Ashley Trent).

Our final stop before heading back East was at an amazing church in the Alamo Heights district of San Antonio, fittingly called Alamo Heights United Methodist. They had invited me to lead the Sunday morning worship for two of their contemporary services, and so we had a great time fellowshipping with them and they were such a hospitable group of brothers and sisters in Christ! Michael, one of the lead pastors was a very cool, hilariously funny guy, and I hope we can come back out and be a part of their church in the near future. I leave you with some pics of our time with them. Thanks and hope to see ya soon.