Why Houston? Well a couple of reasons. First, her indoors had an event she wanted to attend in the city. Second, neither of us had been stateside since 2015 and we had never been to Texas. So after fourteen flying hours we landed at George Bush International Airport.
Day One (Monday) was not what we had planned. We went to a tour office to book a tour to NASA, intending to go on the Wednesday, but the guy said I have one going in half an hour, "wanna go?" Why not. It was a great visit despite the fact that it rained and we got pretty wet going to and from the Saturn 5 and the B747/space shuttle displays.
Tuesday saw us on the city tour that was included with our NASA tour. It was a good way to get a quick overview of the city.
Many of the city buildings are decorated with huge murals, that I have montaged here.
The afternoon was taken up by a visit to the Houston Aquarium that, apart from the usual aquatic creatures, featured this magnificent specimen, one of a pair of the housed there.
On the way back to our apartment we found a bar with a happy hour and just had to stop in!
Jet lag caught up with us on Wednesday and we had a late start. Since it was Veteran's Day we figured we would just take easy. We took a fairly leisurely stroll down to the theatre district where things had seemed lively the day before. We were surprised to see dozens of school busses, but thought nothing more about it. Walking toward the town hall we saw a few people with flags and placards, and a lot of police. We wondered if there was some sort of protest going on...but no, the Veteran's Day parade was about to start. Now the school busses made sense as thousands of school kids came marching by, along with every other Veteran's group in Houston. It was fun!
Saturday featured an encounter with the city light rail system that eventually got us too and from the museum district.
Tomorrow we head home - hopefully without any disruption from yesterday's groundings.
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