Last week my sister, Marcia, and I drove down to Houston to attend the International Quilt Festival. We've been to Market several times, but this was our first trip to the festival. How lovely it was to go and simply have fun instead of spending every waking minute trying to figure out what to purchase for the shop. If you wish to find out about what we saw and did at the show I'll be posting that stuff here.
We arrived in Houston on Wednesday and stayed with John the entire time we were there. Our original plan had been to spend all of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday attending the show, but we ended up spending most of the day Friday with John.
Our day with John started off by going downtown to visit one of his favorite stores (and now one of ours) Spec's. We could easily have stayed there for the entire day shopping, but after picking out a few goodies we moved on.
The next stop along our route was the Johnson Space Center. I spent two weeks there back in 1984, but some things have changed since then. They have a flashy new visitor center with lots of interactive exhibits, a food court, and the obligatory gift shop. You can also take a tram ride around the campus which stops off at a couple of buildings including a visit to the old mission control. The Saturn V rocket has been refurbished and is now located inside of a building. You can also get right up next to it which you couldn't do the last time I was there.
The view along the seawall was mostly unobstructed by tourist traps.
If John were more cooperative this wouldn't be such a crappy picture. He has no one to blame for it but himself.