Houston day 2

Not feeling too good we decided to abort the plan agreed the previous night to take a helicopter over the city and down to Kemah, instead choosing to just walk around downtown. Although the sadist in me thought it would be a good idea to do the chopper just to dump on Hooters and get them back for ruining our trip.

The Toyota Center, today hosting a graduation ceremony, so wasn't worth visiting.

Don't go to parties with metal detectors, sure it feels safe inside but what about all those people waiting outside with guns? they know you aint got one.

It was a really hot day in Houston, way hotter than anything experienced in Mexico. In an attempt to stay out of the sun we thought we'd look for some shade, but there wasn't much. I certainly wasn't thin enough to get any next to this building.

Nice skyline! Perhaps the only good thing about Houston :)


This is Root Memorial Square given to the city by Mr Root so that dumb tourists like me would take pictures of it and spread the word about him; publicity seeking git!

The tallest building in the city is the JPMorgan Chase Tower given to the city by Mr Morgan. Not really, they own most of the building.

The city does have a tram service. We didn't bother riding it as we were heading west and it ran north/south. Close to here was the downtown mall, which was pretty rubbish due to most of the good shops moving to a larger mall just outside the city. We were served by the most dull shop assistant and I did find a sign on which read "This escalator must be used for the sole purpose of transportation only". Not knowing what else to do with an escalator imagine my surprise when I got home and saw this doing the rounds on the internet.



Cool statue even if it looks like someone has been playing with the clone stamp tool in Photoshop to try to remove the body. It really is like that.

Heh heh!! and this is in his home state. You have to love free speech!

So why were we heading west? To head to that, the city's aquarium and ickle theme park which is actually no more than a couple of rides but since the city got rid of Astroworld (boooooo!!!) this is the only place to go for fun, unless you find poisoned food funny in which case there is a restaurant you can go to.

Interesting art statement or incomplete flyover, you decide.

The aquarium is probably the most popular attraction in the city, not that there is much competition. It's also open quite late so if you want to avoid the midday sun you can go in the evening.

Now prepare for some pictures of fish

A fish

A famous fish from Finding Nemo

Lots of fish

Not a fish but still allowed in an aquarium

Umm not a fish either but perhaps they'll eat fish

Most definitely not a fish

Having endured all we could of the aquarium and really not feeling too good at all we chose to grab a taxi back to the hotel. After 100metres our grip failed though and we fell to the floor. Wanting to get back quickly we then caught another taxi, with the aid of a net, and took that back to the hotel, where we then released it back into the wild.

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