Our next stop was SE of Houston, in League City. It was located a few miles inland from the Gulf and convenient to many historic and interesting sights. Aside from that, the location was next door to the Cracker Barrel and 2 miles from Panera's.....yippee!!!!
Houston Space Center was our first stop -- call it a space Disneyland! It was strongly suggested that we take the trolley tour first, as it tended to fill quickly. We froze our behinds! We went into the Johnson space center and toured the astronaut training center and saw where the control center was located. We rode past rockets and various buildings -- one of which is a vault for the moon rocks. Our next stop was the building containing the Saturn 5 rocket -- filled the building!!!!
We saw a movie on the space program and then entered Starship Gallery space museum. The two most interesting exhibits were the large section of the USA portion of the International space center showing such areas as sleeping, hygiene areas, food areas and weightlessness. The other section that was interesting included touching a moon rock ---well, let's be honest, a SLIVER of a space rock!
There was a demo of living in space with audience participation demonstrating the sleeping bags, water system, food, and exercise requirement (2 hours per day). After that we left for camp.
The second day we drove 28 miles to Galveston Island and toured two mansions, ate lunch in a park near the beach seawall (it reminded me of our time in Norfolk), and then came home. The two mansions were interesting - The Moody Mansion had all family furnishings from 1910-20; the Bishop's Palace was unfurnished except for the few items left behind by the Bishop, and his full chapel. The diocese had bought the house in the 1930's and was lived in by the Bishop of Galveston until the 1950's.
On Friday we drove to La Porte to visit the San Jacinto Memorial. My friend Gloria said it was taller than the Washington Monument. I expected to just see the monument. Instead we were amazed to find a museum, a theater, and an elevator to the top! We were there all morning! I always thought that the Alamo was the freedom from Mexico. WRONG! It was the 20 minute battle at San Jacinto that won Texas from Mexico! At lunch time we looked for a Wendy's -- had to take a ferry across the bay and back and then went to see the USS Texas, a battleship which served in both WWI and WWII.
Saturday we moved to New Caney, TX which is located North of Houston. More on that next time!
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