Houston

We're a little behind since we didn't have Internet access for awhile. I'm probably only going to post Houston even though we've also been to New Orleans now because I'm at a very iffy Internet connection at the moment. It isn't strong enough to let me post pictures, unfortunately, so I'll have to wait on those again. Sorry about that, but with traveling, you just never know.

We noticed that many of the valets and such at the Intercontinental were names Sergio. We saw like three Sergio's. We kind of wondered if they just had a bunch of name tags printed up and told them, okay, your name is Sergio. I know, we're very strange.

I thought since we were in Houston that it might be nice to have Mexican food since there were tons of Mexican Restaurants and I figured we could find something authentic. Boy, did we! We went to a restaurant near our Houston attraction and let's just say we pointed at the menu to order after the waitress asked if we wanted El Coke or El Sprite. We did have a nice Mexican lunch even if we only could read part of the menu and couldn't really communicate all that well. The food was good.

After lunch, we went to the National Museum of Funeral History. It was fascinating. They had a bunch of old cars and hearses - some with engines, some horse drawn. They had a replica of a casket making shop and an embalming room and information about civil war embalming. They even had a parlor set up like it would have been had someone died in the early 1900s. They had an Egyptian display and a big display of the death of the Pope and also the deaths of presidents. All in all it was pretty cool. The gift shop had some creepy items. Their motto seemed to be "Any day above ground is a good one."

I'll post pictures when I can. We had a great time there. Really.