Carl Henning

We stopped at the San Antonio Zoo on our way to a birthday dinner. They don’t have elephants. The big cats were all hiding. The sculptures were the interesting things.

A walk in the gardens with flowers and butterflies. We’ve been to Mercer Gardens before, but there were butterflies this visit.

The highlight of Houston’s Downtown Aquarium is the Landry’s Restaurant. Not that we didn’t enjoy the tigers, the fish, and the train ride through the shark tank.

We completed our visit to the Beck building at the Museum of Fine Arts. We still have several buildings to go. We saw a lot of works from familiar masters like Cezanne and Rodin and from unknown artists. There were rooms full of religious art too.

Continuing our first visit to the Museum of Fine Arts… This is as far we got in the Beck building. Paintings, clocks, silver, and telegraph wire.

Continuing our Texas tourism, we visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The museum occupies several buildings and we did not get to everything in the first building, the Beck building. So look for more posts coming soon.

We heard that the water in Galveston Bay was clear, a rare occurrence. Long ago when the grandkids were little they freaked us out by diving underwater and being out of sight in the muddy water. So we went to see for ourselves. and paid a visit to The Bryan Museum.

After finding the  Lone Star Flight Museum on line, I expected a quick visit. Three hours and 78 pictures later… There was a substantial section on space travel. Houston is Space City after all. Thinking of the pilot in the family, we saw lots of information on military pilot training starting with WW1.

Our admission to the Audubon special exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science included access to the regular exhibits. We visited gems, Texas wildlife, African wildlife, and more. But we spent the most time with the dinosaurs in the Morian Hall of Paleontology.