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Vacation Days 7 and 8
Jun. 3rd, 2005 04:37 pmVacation Day 7 (6/2/05)
Drive to Houston
A long drive but we had music and each other to talk to. We finally saw some oil derricks which were not working (another thing that just says Texas). We did see some more longhorns grazing (but mostly 'normal' beef cattle like Hereford crosses of some sort). There is a trend to put things on very large sticks to advertise them. We saw trucks, cars, jeeps, and a piano on a stick.
Found the hotel in Houston and had our Anniversary dinner at Olive Garden where we had a friendly, lonely, talkative waitress who gave Java small tastes of a couple of wines before he chose one (the house white) to go with his shrimp canaloni (I had the chicken alfredo.)
Vacation Day 8
Six Flags Astroworld
My navigation abilities were really bad for this section of the trip, we kept driving around the park, dodging construction (and the interstate) without finding a way in. It turns out to get to the park you park your car at the stadium and walk on a footbridge but the signs for the parking are not real clear from the direction we came in. Ooops. We got a locker for the camera near the front of the park and set off to RIDE.
( SFAW rides )
We then grabbed the camera and took the Sky Ride (saw what was probably originally a marine mammal show then a diving show but currently closed), took pictures of the carousel (of course) and some other things, rode Greased Lightning 2 more times (I did mention it was FUN), the train, Viper, and Cyclone (which had a horribly long and slow moving ride, I don't know why it took about 2x as long to go the same distance compared to the morning and that was by the clock, not just perception). Did some shopping at 25% off (premium pass works down there) and hit the local burger chain (Whattaburger) for dinner and had some very tasty food.
Drive to Houston
A long drive but we had music and each other to talk to. We finally saw some oil derricks which were not working (another thing that just says Texas). We did see some more longhorns grazing (but mostly 'normal' beef cattle like Hereford crosses of some sort). There is a trend to put things on very large sticks to advertise them. We saw trucks, cars, jeeps, and a piano on a stick.
Found the hotel in Houston and had our Anniversary dinner at Olive Garden where we had a friendly, lonely, talkative waitress who gave Java small tastes of a couple of wines before he chose one (the house white) to go with his shrimp canaloni (I had the chicken alfredo.)
Vacation Day 8
Six Flags Astroworld
My navigation abilities were really bad for this section of the trip, we kept driving around the park, dodging construction (and the interstate) without finding a way in. It turns out to get to the park you park your car at the stadium and walk on a footbridge but the signs for the parking are not real clear from the direction we came in. Ooops. We got a locker for the camera near the front of the park and set off to RIDE.
( SFAW rides )
We then grabbed the camera and took the Sky Ride (saw what was probably originally a marine mammal show then a diving show but currently closed), took pictures of the carousel (of course) and some other things, rode Greased Lightning 2 more times (I did mention it was FUN), the train, Viper, and Cyclone (which had a horribly long and slow moving ride, I don't know why it took about 2x as long to go the same distance compared to the morning and that was by the clock, not just perception). Did some shopping at 25% off (premium pass works down there) and hit the local burger chain (Whattaburger) for dinner and had some very tasty food.