Houston....[insert space/'we have a problem'-related joke here]

Very belated I know, but I've finally got around to putting something up on our trip to Houston at the start of October. Omar was sent there for work, so I thought I'd tag along. If it's good enough for Yoko Ono, it's good enough for me.

Although there were nice oases of greenery in the city (like the Japenese Garden in the photo above), to be honest, Houston was pretty underwhelming (and over-heated), or at least the Medical Centre area that our hotel was in (I'm willing to give everyone a second chance). Although being next to a zillion hospitals, did give our hotel the added 'charm' of being full of the sick and the diseased, which was a bit of a bummer. It's difficult to feel super-psyched about a place when everyone looks like they're suffering.  

That said, the highlight of our trip was the food, which was something of a carnivore's paradise. And apparently it's completely normal to have chicken wings and Belgian waffles... for breakfast:

Admittedly, it took a week for my digestive system to return to normal, unfortunately the Atkins diet doesn't agree with me as much as I was hoping.

To take it easy on blogspot, I've put more photos up on facebook. This is a public album link, so you can look at the photos without needing an account/having to sign in:

Houston photos on facebook 

There are also some photos of Galveston and Kemah Broadwalk, on the Gulf of Mexico coast, where we went for a daytrip. It was just like Blackpool, just hotter and with more water pollution.

But in the end, mostly I was just upset about the lack of ten gallon hats and cowboy boots. Such much for stereotypes....