Tourist Saturday

This past Saturday, as our family and friends back in Virginia were being blasted with the "storm of the century", we were actually blessed with a beautiful day in Houston. After days of rain and dreary weather we were just itching to get out and enjoy the sunshine. So I jumped on the internet and found some fun touristy things for us to do with our day. Since we've lived in Texas we've taken quite a few trips out to our favorite part of Texas, the hill country, but we have really not taken the opportunity to explore our home city of Houston except for an occasional baseball game or visit to the HUGE mall downtown :)

So we started our day off with a quick run around the local go cart track down the street from our house and then hit the highway to head up to Houston. Our first stop was the famous "road-trip stop" The Beer Can House. The Beer Can House is referred to as visionary art but I think back in 1968 when John Milkovisch started siding his house with the aluminum from his favorite beer cans, he was just looking for something to do rather than actually make a statement. The story behind The Beer Can House can be found here http://www.beercanhouse.org/

After leaving The Beer Can House we headed over to the Downtown Aquarium where we saw a bunch of fish, reptiles, and owl, a white tiger, and rode the ferris wheel!

Our tourist day wrapped up with dinner at the ultimate touristy restaurant....The Houston Hard Rock Cafe! :)