Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2009

...houston zoo, kemah and galveston partII























....so the houston zoo and kemah was also on our list!-but at first we had to drive back to galveston- because this was our last day in houston and we missed some things...
weather was nice but windy- and as claudia is not so much intersted in wartoys she stayed in the car and watched the pinguins and dolphins comin by.....
so at first i looked at the http://www.cavalla.org/ -a WWII submarine..
it was really intersting and i couldnt believe what kind of technique they had in the 40s!!
-i then headed to the seawolf the warship...

after that we were drivin north to the http://www.houstonzoo.org/
the weather was fine again and we saw some intersting things like the KOMODOwaran...
after the zoovisit we were really tired but we decided to drive to
http://www.kemahboardwalk.com/ on the eastside of houston were i "had to" drive with the

http://www.boardwalkbullet.com/...:-() -oh my god!!!!-and ate some fine burgers of course too...
-we enjoyed our last day in houston very much- tired and happy we went to our motel to sleep....
-next episode- san antonio were comin.;-)

Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2009

...a beautiful sunny sunday at galveston ;-)












...on sunday we dicided to go to galveston- the weather was fine- alittle bit windy-but at some places really arm-like in spring!-we even find some flowers!!
-at 10.00 we were one of the first to make the http://www.galvestonbaywatch.com/ -this was realy fantastic - claudia was really happy to see the dolphins so near!!!
after the boat tour we visited the old sailship http://www.galvestonhistory.org/Texas_Seaport_Museum.asp
-and then -really hungry we went to http://www.galveston.com/fishermanswharf/ restaurant to eat some fine food!!!- not the cheapest- but worth every dollar!!
-then we drove west to the http://www.lsfm.org/ -the museum was fantatic-to s the b17 bomber live was really something special....
-between we had some time to spend on the beach...and to test my texas camping chair the first time...
-oh man what a day........

Sonntag, 27. Dezember 2009

...houston we have a problem..houston bitte kommen!!











-more about nasa lter!-since i could not sleep since 3 in the morning(!!)-we were happy to go to breakfast at 6 o clock!!-we have a funny little brekfastroom with our OWN wafflemachine!! ;-) - later we were shopping at http://www.academy.com/ -where we bought some nice stuff- reebok and nike shoes for bout 35 dollars!?-unbelievable!!
-so later we go to the http://www.spacecenter.org/ - there were about thousands of people so we had to waitt bout 1 and a half hour for our special tour...:-/
-BUT after when you see those big rockets you forget about that-amazing!!- after that we were in the nasa shop for also bout an hour...
-after this exhausting day we quickly drove to IHOP - the pancakes were so big we had problems to eat them..;-)- the coffe is about a half liter and costs about 2 euros...!!!




...but even after tons of coffee claudia was so tired she sleped within 5 minutes after comin home to our motel.......




Samstag, 26. Dezember 2009

...finaly in houston..




...after makin the securitycontrol a second time (:-/)-this time we got our plane to houston- after an exhausting flight for nearly 14hours- atching about four films and claudia eating 3 meals- we arrived in houston...
waitn for about one hour(!)at the usa visa control - we got to hertz- waitin for another 30min to pick up our brand new jeep laredo(150mls on tach)-we arived our motel at nasa rd.....it was about 80km- :-()-houston is big, yes
typical american style we parked our car right in front of he door..;-)
hungry headin to

http://www.ihop.com/

- eatin some fine burgers and pancakes-we were really hungry-and tired- but happy to be here!!

Freitag, 25. Dezember 2009

...christmas surprise...




...my father brought us to the airport on time!(thanks again)-
but weve got FOG in paris so our flight was bout 30min. too late!-
we came 3min. before take off to our airplane-but the didnt let us on board !!!!
:-(- so we had to stay one day in paris!!!!!-cause the next flight was only 24 hours later!!!-
we were really upset and after angry and loud protests and reklamation they(air france) spend us one night in ibis hotel-3meals-and 1200euros in CASH !!!!
-so OK-
after the first schock we spend a beautiful christmas eve on the eifeltower...!!!