DS#1 finished up his PE Summer Camp on Thursday so yesterday (Friday) I decided I wanted to do something "different" with all 4 of the kids along. I bounced around several ideas, but in the end I decided to go to Brackenridge Park near downtown SA. If it had been cooler we probably would have visited the Zoo, but we have a membership and try to go a few times a year. I decided we would ride the Zoo Train (which is actually a train ride through the park that passes the Witte Museum (the museum of natural sciences) and through much of the rest of the park.
DS#3 loves trains so I knew he would enjoy the ride. He wore a very serious expression the entire trip. Based on the way he talked later, we know he loved the trip. I took a number of pictures but very few turned out well. Sometimes I get in a strange kick of trying to take some pictures with an idea in mind. Here and in the next picture I was trying to catch the kids from behind. I like the train picture because the three oldest are in a row, by height.
This picture is at the Japanese Tea Garden (which is at Brackenridge Park). The morning started cloudy but by the time we got to the gardens the San Antonio heat was really kicking in. Add in the fact that we finally got rain on Thursday, and the humidity was pretty terrible. The gardens are quite beautiful though, and DD and DS#3 really liked looking at this waterfall as well as the fish in the pond.Surprisingly, ALL 4 of the children enjoyed themselves. Yes, even DS#2 had some fun running around the gardens. DS#3 pretty much just soaked everything in. It was a short little trip that didn't take up more than a couple of hours, but it was something different from our usual trips to pools, etc. After school starts and it gets cooler, I will have to take DS#3 back and see if I can get some nicer pictures of him on the train.
He DOES look pretty serious, doesn't he?
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