Days 174 & 175 (Fri 1/11/13 & Sat 1/12/13)- Houston, TX

 

Have you seen Downton Abbey yet? I know, I know, we are years behind on TV, this trip generally not helping matters, but if you haven't seen season 1, do so now. We loved it so much we watched the first season twice taking up a good chunk of our day and breaking up the long drive to Houston. We didn't love it so much as to watch it while driving as that last sentence suggests.

Spending only a couple days in the nation's fourth most populus city made for a whirlwind of a weekend but we succeeded in cramming our plans to fit our timeline. Saturday was spent with the sad, the bad and the terrible.

The Holocaust Museum was devastating. Houston based holocaust survivors recounted their most horrifying memories in a video. For both our sakes I won't go into detail.

We spent the rest of the day trying to cheer ourselves up at Goodwills which proved impossible and so we settled into Walmart for the night. Big fans of Joseph Gordon Levitt's we had high hopes for the movie Premium Rush. It was bad. Really bad in fact, but not terrible.

The terrible part of the night was the Walmart we stayed at. Between the trains passing behind our window and the drug fueled ranting in the parking we had a sleepless night. How come the things you would most like to sleep through are the very things that wake you and make sleep impossible?

 

 

                                Memorial wall at the Holocaust Museum