My boyfriend and I going to Houston for 5 days this December. What are some fun things you recommend us to do?
2006-10-03 12:46:09 · 8 answers · asked by Your Wife 3 in Travel ➔ United States ➔ Houston
Galleria - Extremely large shopping mall with ice skating rink.
Museum of Natural Science, Houston Zoo, Burke Baker Planetarium (all in same place).
Tour of Johnson Space Center (NASA) & Kemah Boardwalk - both close to Clear Lake (south east of Houston)
Day trip to Galveston Island and The Strand, or Moody Center, Check out the Imax, ride the ferry over to Bolivar Island. Go see the nude beach over their.
Check out Crystal Beach.
If you are in the 21 and over age group, go to downtown to BAR, Also the Richmond Stip has some clubs, Sams Boat is a kewl bar.
Check out Katy Mills Mall, it's big.
Take your BF to (M2M Clothing store) for guys.
2006-10-04 12:09:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Points of Interest
The city is the seat of Rice Univ., Texas Southern Univ., the Univ. of Houston, the Univ. of St. Thomas, Dominican College, Houston Baptist Univ., Baylor College of Medicine, and the Univ. of Texas Health Science Center. Its many parks include the large Hermann Park, which has a zoo, a museum of natural science, and a planetarium. Houston has several notable art museums, the Space Center Houston museum, and a children's museum. The Wortham Theater Center houses the opera and ballet companies; the city is also home to the Alley Theatre, one of the country's foremost repertory companies. The civic center includes the Sam Houston Coliseum and Music Hall; the massive George R. Brown Convention Center, one of the nation's largest; and the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, home of the symphony orchestra. The city is also home to the Astros (baseball), Texans (football), and Rockets (basketball) professional sports teams.
Other tourist attractions include the Galleria, a huge enclosed mall noted for its luxury stores; Old Market Square; Sam Houston Historical Park, which contains restored homes (built 1824–68) and reconstructed buildings; and the Astrodome (opened 1965) and its adjacent Astroworld, an amusement center. The San Jacinto battlefield is in nearby Pasadena.
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2006-10-03 14:27:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Galleria - Extremely large shopping mall with ice skating rink.
2. Museum of Natural Science, Houston Zoo, Burke Baker Planetarium (all in same place).
3. Texan Game
4. Tour of Minute Maid Park
5. Tour of Johnson Space Center (NASA) & Kema Boardwalk - both close to Clear Lake (south east of Houston)
6. Day trip to Galveston Island and The Strand
Hope these help!
2006-10-03 12:52:15 · answer #3 · answered by wrkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The night club's in Houston,are really good. You could drive own to the Beach in Galveston.Houston shopping is great such as the Galleria Mall etc..Nasa Space Center.You could go see the Houston Rockets Basketball games at the new Toyota Center.
2006-10-03 12:55:33 · answer #4 · answered by Carlos Andres' 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It relies upon on the life-sort you're searching for. Chicago is a significant cosmopolitan city, Austin is smaller and has greater of 'college' sense. it is not fairly the 'hippy' city it was once simply by all of the agencies that have been moving to Austin recently, inspite of the incontrovertible fact that it nonetheless has that sense in numerous respects. Chicago has the theatre/advantageous arts/ballet, and Austin has numerous stay bands and that style of factor. I stay in Austin and that i will make it easier to recognize that's a great city to stay in - that's totally fantastically, the quite everyone seems to be friendly and could make an effort to help out strangers. And for the main area that's effective and laid-decrease back. there is not any longer a sort of crime, and that's a fantastically secure city standard. in case you're making plans to have youngsters in some unspecified time interior the destiny, Austin could be suitable. The drawbacks are that Austin has long, warm summers. specially situations it may attain temperatures of one hundred ten++. i will admit that i do no longer in easy terms like the nice and comfortable summers very plenty. yet once you could take care of it, i might say Austin is a huge selection for you. Chicago winters are additionally brutally chilly from what I hear, so as that's something to observe of too.
2016-12-12 20:01:12 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to pro ball games many fine restaurants into country and cowboy or not you should go and see some of the clubs go to some of the malls go to Conner of main and walker stand for a few min. you will see the best free show on earth, space center we have the best VA in USA. Houston has it all go to Galveston for a day drive the loop you will see Lot's enjoy and welcome
2006-10-03 13:23:00 · answer #6 · answered by moonwalker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
exactly nothin too see!!! unless you wanna see losing teams play!!!! if you want drive or fly 250 miles north and go to dallas there is plenty to see!!!!!
2006-10-03 18:37:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
meet paul wall or mike jones
2006-10-03 12:53:27 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋