♪ For the first time ♪
♪ In a long time ♪
♪ I feel something warm and bright ♪
♪ It's a new day ♪
♪ It's a new life ♪
♪ Feel the wind change ♪
♪ Feel the sunlight ♪
♪ And tomorrow is brighter than it's ever been before ♪
♪ Winter came and now it's gone away ♪
♪ It's a new day ♪
- Welcome to The Pearl, it's one of our favorite places
in San Antonio.
- [Phil] Yeah, there's so much to do down here.
There's actually a lot of just sitting
and people-watching.
Really, really cool place to come.
- The thing about The Pearl, it's very historic.
There's a lot of places in here that are new and shiny,
and there's a lot of buildings and a lot of things here
that have been around for a very long time.
- Who doesn't like shiny?
(Stacy laughing)
- And new. - I like old.
- Yeah, I like new.
- Does that get you our opposites here?
- Yeah.
- So it's called The Pearl
because the Pearl brewery actually was right here
where we're standing.
It opened up in 1883. And the building behind us...
- Wait, wait.
It was built in 1894.
- Whoo, Phil listened! (Phil laughing)
I love it when that happens.
So they've taken all the buildings in this area
that were used for the brewery.
The cannery, the actual-
- [Phil] The whole operation, soup to nuts.
- [Stacy] And they have turned it into lofts and stores
and restaurants. - [Phil] Restaurants.
Coffee shops. - [Stacy] And it is so cool.
- [Phil] Bakeries, places to hang out.
I mean, this is a really family-friendly place.
That's for sure.
- Yeah, and the cool thing about this brewery is
that it was once the largest brewery in Texas.
- That's saying something
'cause everything in Texas is huge.
- So in 2001 is when all this property was purchased
and they slowly started changing over
to what we are gonna show you today.
This building behind us used to bottle all the beer
and this building now has the food hall.
And what's interesting about this food hall,
it's not a typical food court like you would see at a mall.
- [Phil] No.
- What this food hall does is it has people apply to get in
and people who want
to open their own restaurant will be chosen.
And if you're chosen, you get to come here
with very, very low rent for a year.
It gives you 12 months to establish your restaurant,
whether your restaurant is a true restaurant
or a donut shop, as long as you're selling food,
you're welcome to apply.
So it's a really cool way to launch your business.
- [Phil] And it's a cool way to come in
and sample a bunch of different foods.
Pastries, you have desserts. - [Stacy] Ice cream.
All kinds of stuff.
- [Phil] Yeah, so this is probably one
of my favorite spots to go and check out.
- One of the cool things about The Pearl is not only is
it puppy-friendly, but it's also kid-friendly.
One of the main reasons it's also kid and pet-friendly is
because all these lofts have families in them.
So they need somewhere to go in the mornings, the weekends,
the afternoons to get some
of the energy out of both of them.
- Yeah.
There's a lot of energy down here right now.
(Stacy chuckling)
- And it's a hundred degrees,
so I'm not sure how they are actually running around
without just keeling over from the heat.
- Well, they do have the nice little splash pad over there,
so that's that's another cool feature.
- Yeah, maybe we should go jump in.
(Phil laughing)
- Yeah, we'll probably get run out by the kids.
- Yeah, they'll probably be like,
"No creepy old people!"
Looking for a delicious place to eat down here,
this restaurant, Southerleigh, is amazing.
- They have the best Mac & Cheese that I've found down here.
And you know I love Mac & cheese.
- Well, a thing to know about Southerleigh is it is heavy,
rich gravy, you know, those kind of foods,
that's what you're gonna get here.
But I can tell you, they have some
of the best fried chicken you're ever gonna find.
- Yeah, this is stick-to-your-ribs food right here.
I mean, you're full all day
and then some after you eat a meal here.
- And you might want a nap.
(Phil chuckling)
- Yeah.
(Stacy laughing)
- As you can see, The Pearl opens up right
onto the river walk.
So if you're checking out the river walk
or if you're staying in a hotel down on the river walk,
it's just a short walk away.
- Both sides of the river walk have a walking path.
So it's pretty nice to come down here
and just stroll along the river, watch the people,
watch the ducks.
It's nice.
- Come down in the morning, they have a great coffee shop.
- Yep. - You can get coffee
and a pastry and just stroll around and people-watch.
It's a beautiful area and then you just hop
on the river walk and walk towards San Antonio.
- Yeah.
- Deep in the heart of the river walk.
- One of the other things they have down here
on the weekends is a farmer's market.
And obviously, we're not down here during the weekend,
we can't show you, but you have to come very early
to get the best produce because it goes fast.
- Something they recently opened up is this.
- [Phil] You can now kayak, and I think you can SUP.
You can stand-up paddleboard.
- There are restrictions though to that.
So you can only do it through a designated kayak place,
and I think there's only one in San Antonio.
So you can't bring yours off your RV and toss it
into the river walk, they don't think that's okay.
Another option down here
for a delicious meal is the culinary school.
If you go online, you can find dates and times
to sign up for an excellent meal by these students.
And let me tell you, you will not be disappointed.
- Yeah, and if you're not hungry, when you get down here,
just walk by the windows down here
and you may catch some cooking,
that'll get the appetite flowing.
- Of course, you are in Texas,
so of course there are gonna be steakhouses out here.
- Wouldn't be Texas without a steakhouse.
And this one's not bad either.
We've eaten here before, it's pretty good grub.
- And the only thing I recommend, if you wanna come
to any of these places,
make sure you give 'em a call before you come down,
especially on the weekends, 'cause they will fill
and will have two to four-hour waits.
- Yeah, and if you come down here hangry.
(Stacy laughing)
- It's not gonna work.
- It's not gonna work for you.
Not at all.
- We've talked to you about all the yummy food you can come
and find down here, but this, I have to say,
is Phil's absolute favorite place.
- Yeah, second to only the beer.
If you're down here in this area,
you gotta come get The Lick a try.
It's pretty good.
- All right, so we've showed you a little bit of The Pearl.
Now we're gonna show you our best part of The Pearl.
A, because we love it, and B,
because we need air conditioning and we're super thirsty.
(Stacy laughing)
- Yeah, we need a cold beverage
'cause right now it's 93, feels like 108.
I made that part up.
- It's time to go in.
It probably does.
It's hot, hot, hot.
- Yeah.
- Triple digits, of course.
We're breaking records for triple digits here in Texas.
And of course, we're here.
I know, we are jacking it all up.
- And I'm about to break a record
on this cold beverage I'm about to down,
so let's go do that. (Stacy laughing)
♪ Today and not tomorrow ♪
♪ There's no time to borrow ♪
♪ Today, well, something's gotta give ♪
♪ Today is a good day ♪
♪ Today and not tomorrow ♪
♪ There's no time to borrow ♪
♪ Today, well, something's gotta give ♪
♪ Today is a good day ♪
- If you're into museums, San Antonio has a ton of museums.
We happen to be standing in front
of the San Antonio Museum of Art, also known as SAMA.
- And this property's actually
where the Lone Star Brewery used to sit,
so it is a historical site, and some of the buildings
from the brewery still remain.
- That's how she got me down here,
(Stacy laughing)
"We're going to an old brewery."
"Ooh, let's go."
Well, it's really old.
- Actually, what I said was "How about lunch?"
- Yeah, yeah.
- So of course, I can always get Phil to go somewhere
if I talk about food.
- Yes. - And let me tell you,
there's a secret here in this museum.
Not only do they have museum pieces going back 5,000 years,
but they also have a little hidden gem
of a restaurant that the tourists don't usually know about.
- No, and she suckered me into that one as well.
I'm thinking "Food at a museum?
Can't be that good."
Gotta tell you, this food was outstanding.
We both had pasta bowls.
Man, it was really good.
If you come down here, I should say,
when you come down here, you gotta try out the restaurant.
- And a cool thing to know about the restaurant is
you don't actually have to tour the museum
to go to the restaurant.
So if you're not a museum person, no problem.
Skip the line, go straight to the restaurant,
have a great meal.
Now, if you wanna know more about where the locals eat
in San Antonio, make sure you check out my blog below.
I have 10 restaurants that the locals love.
So get out of the tourist traps and go to a good restaurant.
Let's finish up our museum talk.
- There are a ton here that I mentioned earlier.
So Stacy, tell us what they are.
- Museums that are a must-see are the McNay.
And that museum has over 22,000 pieces
and they include Picasso, Chagall, Matisse,
and obviously, many, many more.
- I guess those are big names in the museum.
- Oh, come on, even you know Picasso.
- I know Picasso.
I didn't know the other ones.
You could've been made those up
and I would've been like, "Ooh, interesting."
(Stacy laughing)
- Okay, another museum is The Witte Museum
and that one is another beautiful, amazing museum.
And we also have a Holocaust museum,
that is one you should not miss.
- Yeah, so it's got a little bit of everything here
if you're into the museum scene.
- Before you come to the museums,
make sure you check out each one's website,
they all have free days and discount tickets.
So make sure you get the best price while you're here.
By the way, all the art in these places are not all boring.
I actually got to come a couple weeks ago
and I got to see Tony.
- Parker.
- You know that basketball player
that you people might know.
I got to see his personal collection of superheroes.
Now, that was really cool.
- [Phil] Yeah, so if you're into museums
and the San Antonio Big Three,
which Tony Parker was a part of,
I didn't know that he had his own museum section here.
That's pretty cool.
- Yeah, it's a small installation
that's supposed to be here for a few months.
I really wanna know how big his house is
to store all this stuff because they're huge.
- Everybody remembers The Alamo,
but did you know there's five Missions here in San Antonio?
- Yeah, and they are amazing.
And we are standing here right
in front of Mission Concepcion
and you can also visit San Juan, San Jose,
and my favorite, Mission Espada.
It's also the most decayed, the most falling apart,
but I still think it's the coolest.
If you wanna attend church services
at one of the Missions, you can do that.
They are all still active Catholic parishes.
- And if you check out the National Parks website,
you can see all the times listed for each service.
- The best way to see all five of these Missions is to hop
on a bike and hit the Mission Trail.
- [Phil] Yeah,
we rode all the way down through the river walk
on our bikes and we visited each one of those Missions.
It's pretty cool.
- All five of these Missions are a part
of the National Park Service.
So if you are working on your stamps
in your National Park book, these places are a must.
- Welcome to the King William District,
also known as Sauerkraut Bend. (Stacy laughing)
Say that fast three times.
As the Germans were the first to settle here.
- I don't know if they still call it that,
but it definitely carried that nickname for quite a while.
This is a historic district of San Antonio.
Homes here date back to the early 1800s.
- And you could tell driving through, I mean,
there's a lot of ooh and awe factor.
And just for curiosity, I pulled up Zillow,
yeah, our short arms are not reaching into our pockets.
(Stacy laughing)
These houses are very nice and very expensive.
- And they are huge.
So I highly recommend coming down to this area,
park in your car, coming early in the morning
or in the evening, take a long walk
or even just stay in the car
and drive around some of the neighborhoods.
It is beautiful.
- Some of the houses, like the one behind us,
you can actually go in and tour.
That's pretty cool.
Welcome to Brackenridge Park.
- This park has 349 acres of family fun.
- That's right.
It is on the historical pages of family fun.
- And you can do all kind of things here.
There's a train for the kids to ride.
There's baseball, fishing-
- [Phil] Hiking. - [Stacy] Trails.
(Stacy laughing)
- [Phil] And we've run quite a few 5Ks down here.
- So there's a lot to do at this park.
And the great thing about this park is, right on the edge,
are two other places you have to explore.
- Yeah, the Japanese tea garden and the zoo.
- [Stacy] The zoo offers 50 acres to explore
and there's over 700 species of animals.
Some are extinct in the wild.
- [Phil] That's right.
- The Japanese tea garden is right across from both the zoo
and Brackenridge Park, and it's one of my favorite places
in the city.
It has an amazing unique history
and actually started off 90 years ago as a rock quarry.
- It's a beautiful place to go.
If you wanna go and just catch your Zen and take pictures.
In fact, there's always some type
of photography session going on at.
(train horn honking)
Oh, here comes the kid's train.
- Here comes the train!
It scared me.
In 1919, the city hired a Japanese artist to maintain
and grow the Japanese tea garden.
He died in the late thirties, right before World War II.
When World War II kicked off, they kicked the rest
of the family out of the tea garden
and changed the name to the Chinese tea garden
so nobody would destroy the property.
And then in the seventies, they restored the original name
and they have really made it a beautiful place to visit.
- Yeah, and there's Koi fish in there
that are the size of Gizmo.
(Stacy laughing)
I mean, there's a ton in there.
- So make sure you add this place to your list.
And don't forget, you can find links
for all these places on the blog.
And that is linked below in the description.
- If you wanna feel like you're in another country,
come to the market square.
This place was gifted to the original settlers here
in 1730 by the king of Spain.
- [Stacy] And this is a place to come to get all
of your little trinkets to take home to family
because there's over a hundred different stalls
with artists and artisans with all kinds
of unique things to take home to the kiddos.
- We've found San Antonio's first neighborhood, La Villita.
- And it's listed on the national historic places-
- Registry.
- Registry, places.
You guys know what I'm trying to say.
Now, I know you can't tell from where we're sitting,
but this place is really cool.
- Yeah, we're fighting the heat,
(Stacy laughing)
the music.
- The sun. - The sun.
But this place is rich in history and tradition.
- Now, I know we just showed you the last place
that has all those trinkets you can buy for souvenirs.
And it has a lot of original artisan wears you can buy,
but this is a true artist village.
So you're gonna come here,
you're gonna find some unique things.
You're gonna find galleries.
This one is totally different than the last one.
- Yeah, the last one,
the marketplace was a lot more hustle and bustle.
This over here, La Villita, is a lot more laid back.
- [Stacy] It's a little quieter.
- [Phil] Yeah.
- But it's not always quiet
because they have some killer festivals here
almost every week.
So before you come, make sure you check their calendar
and you can look for dancing and music and all kinds
of festivals that they have right here in this plaza.
- And as always, there'll be links down below.
- Welcome to the San Fernando Cathedral.
This Cathedral opened in the mid-1700s
and sits right here in downtown San Antonio
on the Main Plaza.
Now, one of the cool things
about this church is not just its history and its beauty,
but also if you come down here in the evenings,
most nights of the week, you can get a very cool light show
on the front of the church.
The light show depicts the history
of Texas and it is super cool.
During Christmas time, they do a different show.
So if you're here during the holidays,
you have to come down and check the Christmas show.
It is so beautiful.
If you're looking for some theater while you're here
in San Antonio, they will not let you down.
The Majestic is just one of the awesome theaters you can go
to while you're here in San Antonio.
The Majestic opened in 1929 and it is a historical landmark,
and it was actually one of the very first buildings
in Texas to be completely air-conditioned.
Now, in case you can't tell,
I'm in a little bit of a hurry here
'cause Phil is circling the block several times.
This is not the only theater in town.
You can also check out the Aztec
and The Tobin Center for Arts.
- We interrupt your locals tour of downtown San Antonio
to a much cooler and dryer us sitting in the shade.
- Yeah, we tried really hard
to keep going all around San Antonio,
but at 105 degrees at about two o'clock, we lost our mojo.
- Yeah, yeah.
Not only was it extremely hot to be out there in the sun,
but parking downtown, there was a ton of construction.
So on a few of those where it was just Stacy,
I was circling the block because it was easier to do that
then try to hunt for parking.
- But we do have two more locations we wanna bring you.
- Yeah.
- The first one is the Botanical Gardens
and it is beautiful.
It opened in 1980 and is a 30 acre living museum of plants.
It is such a tranquil escape from the city.
- And I've never been.
(both laughing)
- Yeah, well, you know how Phil is, flowers and museums,
neither are really Phil's forte, but I love it.
It's beautiful.
And they also have rotating installations there.
So something different is popping up all the time.
And there is another hidden gem at the Botanical Gardens.
They have a restaurant there with an amazing chef.
Food is fantastic.
So like the San Antonio Museum, that's another place
with the restaurant that a lot of people don't know about.
- Including me.
(both laughing)
- The final place we're gonna talk
about is something totally different
from all the other stuff, it's called Hopscotch.
It is a artist's installation that is hands-on, a ton of fun.
You walk in, you can get a cocktail,
carry the cocktail around
and check out all these artist installations.
Now, Phil has not been yet- - No.
- But I'm dragging him and the kids down there
because it was so much fun when I went
with my girlfriends for our girls weekend.
And let me tell you, we laughed the entire time.
So if you wanna go in with or without the kids
and have a great time, immersing yourself
in these artists' installations,
I, a hundred percent, say go.
- You had me at cocktail.
(Stacy laughing)
All right, I know you're looking at the shirts we're wearing
and you're going,
"How can I get one of those?" (Stacy laughing)
Well, guess what?
You're in luck.
So we've decided to come up
with different designs, fun designs, colorful designs.
- And they are actually being loaded right now
as we're recording this, which is Friday afternoon,
right before the video launches.
- The day before you see this.
- Yes.
So they are going up.
Now, these will already be in the store, but next week,
they're gonna be bringing up more and more camping designs.
So we have about 10 graphics that are coming up
and to celebrate, we wanna give one away for free.
- That's right.
One lucky winner is going to win this blue shirt
with this design on it.
- So if you wanna be entered in the drawing
to win one of these shirts, all you have to do is down
in the comments write "I want coffee"
and you will be entered
and we will randomly choose one person that has put
that comment down below.
And we will be choosing them next Friday.
- [Phil] We will put the link down below so you can go
to todayissomeday.net, check out the store.
- We wanna take a quick minute to give a shout out
to everybody who participated in our guitar fundraiser.
- It was truly amazing.
In less than two weeks, or about two weeks,
you guys raised just over $15,000 for Homes For Our Troops.
And that is simply amazing.
- So give yourself a big hand. (Stacy applauding)
- Pat on the back.
- Yeah, and we really appreciate you guys.
And we also wanna give a quick shout out
to all of the companies that participated.
So thank you to all of our partners who never say no
and instantly say yes every time we reach out.
- Not only do they say yes, they say,
"How many do you need?"
- All right, guys, thanks for watching.
And hopefully, one day we'll see you out there
on the road. - On the road.
♪ The best is yet to come ♪