Sunday, February 22, 2004
Well, today was a pretty good day. We went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. I finally got to see the butterflies. The museum has a two story room that is kept at the temperature and humidity of a tropical jungle. Then they let about a thousand butterflies just run, er... fly free. They land on leaves. They land on feeding dishes. They land on people, but not very often. Pretty cool, huh?
Actually there is another one just in the next county. You know when you steal ideas that badly, it kind of cheapens the experience.
In other good news, Nader's in the race. He's an independent. I might vote for this time. I hope he's on the Tennessee ballot.
The trip to the museum was a bonus. It seems that Houston has a new trolley system, but this is not your father's trolley. No sir, it's a suped-up, automated-door, bilingual uber-trolley of the future. It's all pretty cool, and there are several attractions located on the route. It runs from the aquarium to downtown, but along the way it passes by such great stops as the museum district, Bell Street, and a McDonald's. Golly! A Mcdonald's! Right next to Fiesta, a hispanic grocery store. A grocery of the likes that no gringo, such as myself, has never seen. Mainly, I'm afraid that there will be NO english on the inside and will ultimately mistake green sauce for shampoo and ruin a perfectly good taco.
I fear that I may have taken my own life, and part of my lower intestines, into my own hands today. I ate at Taco Cabana. Taco Cabana strikes me as the south of the border version of Krystal. I just ate three tacos. I've saved the beans and rice for breakfast because it's got to be just as good as the continental breakfast that the hotel is serving.
The funny part about the continental breakfast is that they give you cups of waffle batter and let you make your own waffles. Why, the entertainment potential alone is enough to make up for the fact that the treadmill is broken.
I guess that's about all I have for today except for all the things that I will miss on this vacation because of being "bovitarian." Things I have missed revisitng on this trip
Texas Burger
What-A-Burger
James Coney Island (a hot dog joint)
$nbsp And folks, that's why I usually gain 10 pounds every vacation.
That's all for today folks. I hope to have some more MeMa stories tomorrow. Tomorrow I plan to test RECORDING her. Can't you just feel the excitement flowing through me? Imagine a time when I'll never have to hear about how she plans to write her memoirs some day. (And I'll get to use the term "Me-moirs" a lot more often.)
Good night.
Actually there is another one just in the next county. You know when you steal ideas that badly, it kind of cheapens the experience.
In other good news, Nader's in the race. He's an independent. I might vote for this time. I hope he's on the Tennessee ballot.
The trip to the museum was a bonus. It seems that Houston has a new trolley system, but this is not your father's trolley. No sir, it's a suped-up, automated-door, bilingual uber-trolley of the future. It's all pretty cool, and there are several attractions located on the route. It runs from the aquarium to downtown, but along the way it passes by such great stops as the museum district, Bell Street, and a McDonald's. Golly! A Mcdonald's! Right next to Fiesta, a hispanic grocery store. A grocery of the likes that no gringo, such as myself, has never seen. Mainly, I'm afraid that there will be NO english on the inside and will ultimately mistake green sauce for shampoo and ruin a perfectly good taco.
I fear that I may have taken my own life, and part of my lower intestines, into my own hands today. I ate at Taco Cabana. Taco Cabana strikes me as the south of the border version of Krystal. I just ate three tacos. I've saved the beans and rice for breakfast because it's got to be just as good as the continental breakfast that the hotel is serving.
The funny part about the continental breakfast is that they give you cups of waffle batter and let you make your own waffles. Why, the entertainment potential alone is enough to make up for the fact that the treadmill is broken.
I guess that's about all I have for today except for all the things that I will miss on this vacation because of being "bovitarian." Things I have missed revisitng on this trip
Texas Burger
What-A-Burger
James Coney Island (a hot dog joint)
$nbsp And folks, that's why I usually gain 10 pounds every vacation.
That's all for today folks. I hope to have some more MeMa stories tomorrow. Tomorrow I plan to test RECORDING her. Can't you just feel the excitement flowing through me? Imagine a time when I'll never have to hear about how she plans to write her memoirs some day. (And I'll get to use the term "Me-moirs" a lot more often.)
Good night.
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