Our trip to good ol Texas
So, on Kristie's spring break from school,
and my spring break from work, we went to meet Kristie's
friend Tim, or Tavin as she calls him.
We flew out of Madison on March 10th, and arrived in Houston to stay at
our hotel, pictured below.
Don't ever stay here. Please.
It sucks.
This was the door to our room. It only
had one bed. Grrrr
This is a picture of the side of the hotel
that Kristie took.
This is me, on the balcony, wondering if
jumping would get us a room with two beds, haha!
This is the traditional "Kristie on the bed
telling me not to take a picture" picture.
Here is the traditional "Katie on the phone"
picture.
Here's Kristie making sure that the table
is in fact a table, and not some kind of evil spy device...
Kristie on the bench under the palm tree.
We had never seen a palm tree before.
I named him Jake. Isn't he a pretty
palm tree?
This is Kristie jumping on her "bed" which
was really a mattress they "found" in storage and threw on the floor.
Look! It's me! Jumping on the
same "bed" while on hold with Best Buy for half an hour...grrrr
It's Tavin!!! Wooohoooo! Oh and
Kristie too..hehe. Tavin was great and put
up with us all week! He deserves some
kind of award for that...
One day while in Texassss
we went to the Houston Zoo! It was fun. I liked being outside
when it was so warm.
I think we walked around for about 4 hours, trying to see everything....
This explains itself, no? lol
Welllll....there's an alligator in this here
picture. If you look at the guy standing there, and then
look straight down and just a smidgen to
the right...he's there, lurking in the grass. I swear.
Flamingo's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yehaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a picture of the fattest, biggest
Mallard's I have ever seen. On the left is Mr. Mallard,
and on the right, Mrs. Mallard. They
were about the size of geese and jiggled when they waddled. Ewww!
Another picture of Mr. Mallard swimming in
the pond with an unnamed duck pal. See the
black bird in the upper right hand corner
that tried to ruin my picture and didn't succeed? Ha! I showed
him!
This is a beautiful cat...unfortunately I
forgot what it's name was. He's about the size
of a larger housecat. The picture doesn't
show how pretty he really was.
I love Koi. I've always wanted a pond
in my backyard filled with them.
Ok, so maybe I could try getting a backyard
first. Again, the picture didn't do
them any justice at all, but it at least
gives you an idea of how beautiful these fish are.
Some turtles on a log. There was one
trying to get on there, but the other one wouldn't
move, so he had to fall off into the water
again....it was so sad. hehe
Kristie and I loved this sign, so we took
a picture. It was at the exit to the
children's section of the zoo. The
children's section had all the cool stuff in it!
A picture I took of myself when we
got home. I was trying to waste film.
It's a buffalo skull!!!! We didn't
see it in Texas,
but I felt it carried the southwestern theme
thingie....
It's actually my stepmom's. It has
it's own spot on the couch.
It also has a buzzard for a friend!
Wooohooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well....that was it for
the pictures. I had a pretty good time, with the exception
of the entire hotel debacle.
If you really want to know, just ask. Otherwise just leave
the subject untouched. :)
I know if I ever go back there again, I want to see the Alamo.
A couple of other things
too, but you're probably bored with this by now, so I'll just let you
keep surfing! I'm
sorry to say there was no Travel Log on this trip, there just wasn't room
for
it on the plane. I
know all of you out there are disappointed, but I promise on the next trip,
we'll
make up for it! Now
go and check out my sister's anemic Texas page! Sign both of our
guest-
books too, will ya?
Thanks!
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