{"id":7149,"date":"2025-12-08T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/?p=7149"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:05:16","slug":"family-vacation-day-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/?p=7149","title":{"rendered":"Family Vacation Day Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

06\/18\/25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family Vacation Day Seven (Wednesday): Today we drove back to San Antonio. Rachel specifically asked to visit the Holocaust Museum:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Located in a Jewish center it was on the second floor:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thought provoking. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the museum we went to a park across the street from our next destination, the Japanese Tea Garden & Chinese Gardens. This was Mom’s destination of choice and we all found beauty to enjoy! It was advertised as a Japanese Tea Garden online.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This little sign was off to the side of the main entrance<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was beautiful:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lots of water, pathways and greenery and Luna Dog was allowed to join us<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Papaya!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all enjoyed the gardens:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There even was a waterfall:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We all had our favorite spots:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peaceful!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mom and Dad really enjoyed it too:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the front outside the gardens was an old “Mexican Village”:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not much more to see and you could not go inside:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our next stop is the AirBnB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the evening we walked to a Belgian Bistro for dinner:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were having a great day!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then we walked to Hemisfair Park, a local free park. It was amazing! There were outside games, gardens, playgrounds, sculptures, and , art, music and a plethora of water features. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We tried to play ping pong<\/strong>. We had so much fun!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were lots of sculptures:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This park contains a life-size cow sculptures that are transformed by local artists and auctioned off for charity<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Tower of the Americas<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were lots of water features by the tower<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s easy to relax here!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently a bee was chasing them<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A relaxing end of the day<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Best of friends sisters<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lizzy’s favorite:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until she saw. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fabulous day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

06\/18\/25 Family Vacation Day Seven (Wednesday): Today we drove back to San Antonio. Rachel specifically asked to visit the Holocaust Museum: Located in a Jewish center it was on the second floor: Thought provoking. . . After the museum we went to a park across the street from our next destination, the Japanese Tea Garden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7188,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7149\/revisions\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myjoy.sullybeck.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}