Texas - Houston day 1
At the Logan airport in Boston.
Zlatan was on TV on the plane.
Wehello Houston!! At Hobby airport.
We slept at the airport. Very uncomfortable but all experience is good experience.
It was cold and almost empty, only the cleaningpeople left. I don't think we'll do it again, atleast not during the night, because if we had done it during the day the seats would have been more comfortable since we could sit in the waiting area instead of the public area. Our neck pillows were so helpful here!
We didn't sleep much at all that night. Maybe three hours total.
We waited, waited and WAITED for it to be morning so we could eat breakfast.
Typical Texas-restaurant bbq/steakhouse. We had scrambled eggs, bacon and cheese in tacobread. Yummie!
After the restaurant we brushed our teeth and got ready before we took a bus into downtown to our hostel/the city.
We got off the bus a little bit before downtown when we saw a big building with a "Minute Maid Park" sign on it. That was a thing we wanted to see. Almost like Fenway Park (the baseball park) in Boston.
Texas avenue.
Just some houses.
Some of the city from Minute Maid Park.
You can see a flag to the right - that's Texas state flag.
It was locked ofcourse, so we couldn't get in, but I found a window so here we could see some of it atleast.
We kept on walking towards downtown.
Sheriff-car!
A train passed on mainstreet from one direction til the other one. It's so smart to get west-east fast.
Beautiful city!
Wortham Center Theatre. We never went inside, but it was cool to see.
Some cool building we didn't really know what it was!
If I would have brought my bikini I would have gone inside the Aquarium - it seemed so much fun!
George Bush in a little cute park.
It started to get later in the day so it was so much warmer here.
The view from the park.
Another park.
Wortham fountains.
It was such a beautiful place!
We went to Houston when it was all-star basketball games. I have never heard of it, but it was like "the thing" during this time. It wasn't crowded at all on the streets and I guess this was the answer. The owner of our hostel said celebrities had come to town (like Beyoncé) just for the games.
It was over the weekend.
This town was really fresh and they had so fancy cars! Dodge most of all - really shiny and they looked brand new.
Rodeo sign. Too bad it wasn't season for that. It would have been fun to see a typical texas-thing.
Yeah, cars like this all over! I am so jealous!
We went to a skaterpark, it was fun to see skaters in all ages!
Here it was soooo hot!
On a bridge on our way to the hostel.
Sabine was the oldest street in Houston. It might be hard to see but the streetsigns are pretty texas-like.
Our hostel was about 15 minutes away from downtown (walk) and was the historic area of town. It was nice to see the real texas-houses here. Not very fresh but still cool.
Oh, we wanted these oranges so badly!
Totally purple!
This was our hostel.
I thought they were kidding me first. Terese had booked it so I had no idea. It looked so trashy and miserable.
But it turned out to be better than it first seemed. The owners were AWESUME, so friendly and caring. Free breakfast and they summarized Houston, what was worth to do and not, recommended places to visit etc. They were so personal and easy going. After awhile I thought it was more cozy than trashy.
The view from the hostel.
On our way to Taget to buy some snacks and food for the comming days.
Suddenly we found these giant sculptures.
You can see holes on the sides, they are big as a person. So the sculptures were huge!
Later, on our dallas-trip, we saw some of these sculptures next to the road. So cool! We had no idea!
I kind of regret that noone was in this picture so show how big they were. But you got maximum reach the nose of the face to the left (the flat one on the ground).
Texas slum.. but still cool.
This was our room. Not that bad. You could tell the owner liked interior design, but everything was "hardmade-style" and made in a special way. Indian/french/chineese-style, but very cozy. The bed felt like heaven after our night at the airport.
We went into town directly after leaving our stuff at the hostel.
We just walked around and took a drink at a cozy little café.
The seats were really hard and I bounced in them thinking they were soft. I screamed and the next second Terese did the same.. haha.
Four seasons.
Discovery Green Park was crowded, it is next to the baseball games. But it ended by the time we got there.
Some cheerleaders.
Toyota center - a big arena.
Live music from the roof of the 713-tickets sign.
A nice church.
A typical Texas-bar. But we never went inside.
Getting dark.
Beautiful Houston! We went to bed at 7.30 this night and I slept until 6 the next day. Exhausted, haha!
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