<p>Or more college visit in the area? Help me. Thanks! :-)</p>
<p>Go to six flags</p>
<p>^ won’t do. Acrophobia!</p>
<p>“Space Center Houston is the Official Visitors Center of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which is the home of astronaut training and Mission Control. …”</p>
<p>This is from the web site of Space Center Houston, which is what comes up if you google “NASA Houston.”</p>
<p>I don’t have the slightest idea whether or not this is worth going to, or if, instead, it is tacky and/or aimed at little kids.</p>
<p>Go to Austin.</p>
<p>Goode Company barbecue</p>
<p>other than that, nada</p>
<p>how hot is it in houston?</p>
<p>I’m from Houston. It’s a great city, but the only other universities are the University of Houston branches and Texas Southern. </p>
<p>What do you like to do? You can visit the Museum of Fine Arts or the Menil Collection (my personal favorite gallery). Downtown doesn’t have much to offer except the sports and musical venues. </p>
<p>The Beer Can House is amusing to see once. [The</a> Beer Can House : Home](<a href=“Info Penting Situs Dolarslot88 Kini Re-Brand Menjadi Alktoto”>http://www.beercanhouse.org/)</p>
<p>Of course, the NASA Space Center is out on Nasa Road 1. </p>
<p>Katy Mills and the Galleria are fantastic malls, if you like shopping.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind driving a little further, I’d check out the Woodlands. It’s one of the better areas around here, and it sports another great mall. </p>
<p>NY Pizzeria serves the best gourmet pizza. You can find it and a thousand other businesses on Westheimer (outside the 610 loop). You can probably find whatever you need here: bars, clubs, fine food, etc. Some great bookstores too. Unfortunately, Astroworld (the theme park) is now closed.</p>
<p>Sounds pretty bleak.</p>
<p>Thats what I was thinking TheDad
;)</p>
<p>Here is a site to start a look at Houston. There is a lot to do. [Rice</a> University | General Information](<a href=“http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/General_Information.asp]Rice”>http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/General_Information.asp)</p>
<p>Visit the Museum of Natural History (or to one of the other museums in the Museum District), go to the Arboretum, go to the Houston Zoo, see a show at TUTS or at the Alley Theatre, go to the Houston Ballet, visit Battleship Texas, go to a Houston Texans game. Just depends on what your interests!</p>
<p>There are wonderful museums, concerts, parks etc. Shopping is king in Texas, of course, so there is The Galleria and Rice Village. You can go to Galveston to the beach.</p>
<p>You could do lots of things</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to a movie </li>
<li>Watch TV.</li>
<li>Read a book.</li>
<li>Catch up on your sleep.</li>
<li>Go shopping.</li>
<li>Visit Rice again.</li>
</ol>
<p>Are you visiting sometime soon? Unless you are from New Orleans, you will find the humidity amazing.</p>
<p>Houston has no zoning, so uses that other cities deed uncompatible are adjacent to each other in Houston. If you really want to like Houston, find someone who lives there and loves it (or has lived there and loved it.) I’m sure it has a whole lot going for it but I’ve never had a good time in Houston…I’ve only gone there on business…the humidity is incredible and when it rains, the streets flood…the traffic is heavy…you can see that it woud not be a favorite of the business traveler. But people who live there assure me it’s a terrific city…you just have to know where to look.</p>
<p>Pretty much sums up the problem of Rice University … an amazing school in a horrible town. No matter how hard people might try to extol the virtues of Houston (shopping, oil capital of the world, world-class medical facilities) it is hard to overlook the development hodgepodge, the weather, the traffic, and scores of other problems. </p>
<p>And, despite all of that, the Economist called Houston the City of the Future. Of course, what makes Houston sufferable (and the rest of Texas amazing) is simply the people who live there. It isn’t the construction. It isn’t the natural beauty. The can-do spirit and niceness of the citizens make all the difference. If this is enough to justifiy spending four years in Houston remains debatable. This said, few people ever leave willingly once they learn to appreciate the Texan lifestyle. </p>
<p>PS I’d pass on visiting Galveston for the beach!</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>LOL! We were in New Orleans a week or so ago visiting my parents and we all commented that we thought - no matter the temp - New Orleans just seemed cooler than Houston! </p>
<p>In the heat of the summer…I’d check out the Blue Bell Ice Cream factory. It’s about 90 minutes or so from downtown Houston.</p>
<p>As a native Houstonian, I can honestly say that Houston is a GREAT place to live and to raise a family, but not a really great place to visit. Unless you know where to go and how to get there, it’s kind of hard to get around. </p>
<p>That being said, there is a beautiful park - Herman Park, right across the street from Rice. The Museum of Natural Science (currently has the Terracotta Warriors exhibit, which I thought was cool) and the Zoo are located in the park along with Miller Outdoor Theater - which is awesome! I’ve seem 42nd Street and 2 Shakespeare plays performed recently- for free, sitting on a blanket on the hill with an icechest filled with Chardonnay, cheese and crackers- not a bad way to spend a summer evening (and believe it or not, the breeze was heavenly, and it wasn’t hot - shows start around 8 pm). </p>
<p>Down the street (Main or Fannin) from Rice, you can visit the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art, which both have great sitting exhibits and awesome visiting exhibits.</p>
<p>Going the other way down Rice Blvd., you will run into Rice Village, a shopping/dining area filled with eclectic shops and great dining establishments, just a cool area to walk around and window shop.</p>
<p>For some serious shopping, get on 59 and head west to the 610 loop, and you can go to one of the most ridiculous malls in the country. filled with every concievable designer store you can imagine, bring your wallet $$$$$. Then when you get tired of spending money, you can ice skate in the arena located in Galleria 1 (there are 3 wings).</p>
<p>Someone mentioned Nasa - it is cool to visit, they have tons of interactive exhibits to give an idea of what it’s like in space, but what I think is amazing is the actual space modules from the past to the current ones - the advances in technology are pretty incredible. Also, right now they have George Lucas’s private collection of his movie memorabilia, my son and his friends really enjoyed that.</p>
<p>If you want to go to the beach, they’ve gotten Galveston cleaned up from our latest hurricane, and the Schlitterbahn, a huge outdoor waterpark is always fun, plus Moody Gardens is great to visit. It’s also fun to go to the Kemah Boardwalk (north of Galveston Island, on Galveston Bay) to eat, you can sit outside and watch the boaters go through the channel from Clear Lake to the bay, good Mexican and sea food restaurants with great margaritas!</p>
<p>You know, there really are a lot of things to do and see here, we just don’t really take advantage of them, living here - probably like a New Yorker doesn’t go to the top of the Empire State Building except when they have someone visiting.</p>
<p>Oh, and about that humidity - that’s why our skin looks so good - the natural moisturizing!! ;)</p>
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<p>Oh - so that’s why I look so good! :))</p>