What to do in Houston

You need to find plenty of entertainment when you're hosting your entire family for three weeks, and thankfully Houston has plenty of entertaining things to do.  The days have settled into a comfortable pattern of morning trips out and afternoon naps (the nap length dependent on whether lunch was taken at a brewery or not).

Pete, as ever, is over the moon that he has a wider audience for his shenanigans, although discipline has been slipping: Grandma allows far more books at bedtime than Mummy or Daddy, so has become the tucker-in of choice.  Many miles have been added to my car as we zip from coffee shop to coffee shop, and Dad has developed a dangerous interest in both basketball and Bud Light.  Hmmm.

Cake time for the 85-yr-old.

Green with envy.

Purple with...mood lighting at the planetarium.

"The Cabinet of Curiosities" at the museum of natural science.  That's about right.

All heart.

My parents have belatedly developed a taste for classy coffee.  Here's one of the twenty cafes we've frequented during their stay.

As Texan as you can get.

A little nitrogen ice cream.  In Britain we make ice cream by leaving cows outside.

Inside the space shuttle at NASA.  How much to launch these three into orbit.

Outside another coffee shop.

Still waiting for it to turn into a butterfly.

Shave ice, the food equivalent of air conditioning.

Dad picks from the margarita menu at our local Mexican.

Gosh, there are a lot of pics of people eating.

And some more.

A short cruise around Port Houston, the biggest by foreign imports in North America!

More Texan.

In sync.  There's always a first time.

Liquid lunch.

Emily, before she gets really aggressive, like she always does when she's been drinking.

I blame the parents.

In front of a nurse-themed Damien Hurst at the Museum of Fine Art.

Atlas shrugged.

We did put them to work planting a lime tree in the front yard (home-grown gin and tonics next year!)  Pete "helped".

Related?  Possibly.