Day 28: 2 April - Houston's Museum District

I struggled to get out of bed today after all the wine. The crew from the night before - Thomas, Jimmy, Eline, Nathalie and Maria had a lovely breakfast together before we all parted ways. It was a great morning! Jimmy, who is a brilliant jewelry designer/maker spent breakfast making a ring, which I got to keep. Definitely my favourite souvenir from Houston!

Thomas, Nathalie, Eline, Me and Jimmy

It was so warm and humid in the hostel, and motivation to get up and ready after breakfast was really hard! I chose to spend the day exploring the museums in Houston, because it just so happened that they had free admission on Thursday. Thomas and Jimmy also had the same idea, so we all headed over to the Museum of Fine Art. I'm not a huge artsy person generally, but it was very nice in there. My favourite was definitely the ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian art.

I was super impressed with this museum!

After the museum, the boys and I said our goodbyes and I headed over to Hermann Park. While checking out the monument of Sam Houston, I met a German girl named Claudia. We ended up walking around the great park for a while before walking down the road for some lunch at Cafe Express in the Art Museum. I had a gourmet swiss cheese and mushroom burger..Aaaaahmazing!

The Sam Houston monument in Hermann Park

Replica reflection pool and Washington monument

Very cool stick house in Hermann Park

We said our goodbyes after that and I headed to the Natural Science Museum. It was a very cool museum, and I spent most of the time in the Dinosaur room, but it closed very shortly after I got there.

I managed to bus back to hostel where O'Dell picked me up. We got Chick Fil A for dinner - an awesome chicken burger and cookies and cream milkshake! - and headed to the Miller open theatre for a free Legally Blonde musical. It was such a cute musical put on my the senior class of a performing arts school, and they rocked it!

I said goodbye to O'Dell at the bus station where I was off to New Orleans!