Our visit to Houston has been a little different from San Diego and Phoenix because although we were there to check out the city we were also there to visit with some family. One of my mum’s favourite cousins (Auntie Vicky) has lived in Houston for who knows how long and its only now that we’d actually had a chance to visit. Photos are here.

The Experience

As we expected from the space city the area where we were staying was pretty spacey looking. Well sort of. The lamp posts and traffic lights were pretty cool and a darn sight prettier than those I’ve seen to date.

As I stated above Houston was actually all about family and weren’t we treated royally! Auntie Vicky’s family was so great to us – driving us all over the place, feeding us and actually giving up a lot of their own time to entertain us. It was great fun.

Actually we couldn’t have timed our visit to Houston any better with it being the weekend of Chinese New Year. This meant a gigantic feast at yum-cha on Sunday and of course the requisite lion dances:

These lions used to frighten the heck out of me. Even now I can’t understand how the little kids aren’t scared with the loud banging of the fire crackers and the frantic movement of the lions. Still, a good lion dance is extremely entertaining.

Our time in Houston was a bit of a drive by visit so to speak as we didn’t actually go into any attractions but somehow spent a lot of time taking photos. Cowboy boots were the order of business in Houston but I’m not talking about the ones on your feet! First there were painted cows, in Berlin we saw painted bears and in Houston they had painted cowboy boots. Pretty cool.

The only disappointment really in Houston was not seeing any sexy cowboys (we JUST missed the rodeo!) Thanks though to the family for being so generous to us.

Discovery Pyramid Moody Gardens	Galveston	The setting sun
	Kemah Boardwalk