So we board the plane in Des Moines, and I hear something I’ve never heard before. Over the intercom, they say something about lap children. I know what that is, I’ve just never heard anyone use that term. The flights were good, about a 45 minute layover in Dallas and a quick flight to Houston. We picked up the rental car, which is a Mitsubishi SUV, but I don’t remember what kind. It only had 69 miles on it when we got in, so it still has that new car smell. We only made one mis-step getting to the hotel, but we figured out the directions and made it from the airport in about 45 minutes. We checked in and made it to our rooms on the 9th floor. OH MY, this is living. I’ve added some pictures, but I promise you it doesn’t do it justice.
We have a pretty nice view and the rooms are pretty plush. We crossed the street to eat at The Fox Sports Grill. There were a lot of TV’s showing a bunch of football games. After about 2 seconds, I remembered that we were in Texas, a huge football state and I was now surrounded by the enemy. I’m a Redskin fan and I’m in Cowboy territory. The Cowboys were on TV and the crowd was pretty loud. I’m glad they weren’t playing the Redskins this week or I might have had to start something. Yeah, right. We made it back to our room in time for Amazing Race, priorities you know. Now it’s relaxing time until our 6:45 breakfast and off to count 18 million pounds of plastic. I’m not sure how often I will post, so there may be 2 posts at a time when I do. Nothing real exciting happened today, in fact, it went much smoother than I figured it would. We’ll see if we can get to Baytown with as much ease. Well, I off to bed to watch the rest of this semi-porn music video on an HD channel that I found. I think it is Pink, if you know your pop stars, which I don’t, but I think I’ve seen her before. Did I mention that we have HD TV’s in our rooms? I don’t even have one at home yet, so I’m in luxury right now. We did have an issue trying to get back to the hotel from dinner. The restaurant is across the street, but the street is like 9 lanes wide, so you have to wait for the lights. We got over ok, but coming back, we couldn’t get the lights to change, so we just dodged cars so we could get across. We watched someone else push the crosswalk button and it worked for them, so maybe John doesn’t know how to push buttons correctly. I’ll have to keep an eye on that. When we went to dinner, there were these wires that held this big circle with street names on it, I can’t really describe it since I’ve never seen anything like it. Anyway, the thing was covered with birds, I mean hundreds of them. I had a flash back to The Birds movie and was slightly frightened. They even sounded like the birds in the movie and they just kept flying in. I’ll take my camera next time we cross over and take a picture of the circle and maybe the birds will be there again. I heard them dropping gifts as we walked under, not the best thing to hear before dinner.
We have a pretty nice view and the rooms are pretty plush. We crossed the street to eat at The Fox Sports Grill. There were a lot of TV’s showing a bunch of football games. After about 2 seconds, I remembered that we were in Texas, a huge football state and I was now surrounded by the enemy. I’m a Redskin fan and I’m in Cowboy territory. The Cowboys were on TV and the crowd was pretty loud. I’m glad they weren’t playing the Redskins this week or I might have had to start something. Yeah, right. We made it back to our room in time for Amazing Race, priorities you know. Now it’s relaxing time until our 6:45 breakfast and off to count 18 million pounds of plastic. I’m not sure how often I will post, so there may be 2 posts at a time when I do. Nothing real exciting happened today, in fact, it went much smoother than I figured it would. We’ll see if we can get to Baytown with as much ease. Well, I off to bed to watch the rest of this semi-porn music video on an HD channel that I found. I think it is Pink, if you know your pop stars, which I don’t, but I think I’ve seen her before. Did I mention that we have HD TV’s in our rooms? I don’t even have one at home yet, so I’m in luxury right now. We did have an issue trying to get back to the hotel from dinner. The restaurant is across the street, but the street is like 9 lanes wide, so you have to wait for the lights. We got over ok, but coming back, we couldn’t get the lights to change, so we just dodged cars so we could get across. We watched someone else push the crosswalk button and it worked for them, so maybe John doesn’t know how to push buttons correctly. I’ll have to keep an eye on that. When we went to dinner, there were these wires that held this big circle with street names on it, I can’t really describe it since I’ve never seen anything like it. Anyway, the thing was covered with birds, I mean hundreds of them. I had a flash back to The Birds movie and was slightly frightened. They even sounded like the birds in the movie and they just kept flying in. I’ll take my camera next time we cross over and take a picture of the circle and maybe the birds will be there again. I heard them dropping gifts as we walked under, not the best thing to hear before dinner.
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