San Antonio

Here is the current weather in San Antonio (at 8:00 pm):

In 20 minutes, the sun will set and the temperature will drop to a chilly 24 degrees.

We spent the day mostly staying cool, in shady Brackenridge park and in the air conditioned children's museum. Luckily our AirBnb is just down the road from the park, so we didn't have to get back into the car after yesterday's drive. 

Brackenridge park is a huge urban park that is over 100 years old, and contains the San Antonio Zoo and Witte Museum. Our first stop was to the Japanese tea garden, built to disguise an old cement quarry in the park. Jasper liked the fish and all the stairs to climb around on.

 Next, we took a ride on the little train that does a loop of the park.

 The whole track is 2 miles long. It passes over bridges and passes the main attractions in the park.

After a picnic lunch and trip back to the house for nap time, we went over to the DoSeum Children's Museum. It was so hot that we decided to drive instead of walk 20 minutes.

The DoSeum was great fun. There was a whole toddler-sized town, complete with grocery store, bank, airport, restaurant, construction site and bus. Jasper spent an hour going grocery shopping. It was quite an elaborate setup with realistic food and even the cashier's scanners worked.

There was an infants area that provided Ellis some respite from the crazed toddler town.

The DoSeum also had a set of outdoor exhibits. We saved those for later in the day when we thought it would be cooler. It was still hot.

 There was a big water play area, but Jasper was a bit too short to reach the water tables.

 There was a shady wading river that Jasper enjoyed cooling off in.

There were side channels and dams, so the kids could play around with diverting the water to see what happens.

Pat and Ellis took selfies while we played in the water. She was over it.

Other than a sunscreen-related toddler meltdown, it was a pretty good day. Tomorrow we head downtown to check out the Alamo and Riverwalk.