I have been such a bad blogger! But I have excuses reasons! Besides all those many, many reasons, I have accomplished one or two things from my bucket list. I also want to add a few more items….
(My original Bucket List post is here.)
Things to see and do:
1. Monica Pope’s farmer’s market
2. Rice University football game
3. watch a Dynamo game
4. visit the Holocaust Museum – Done. I visited on an Agency Visit with the Junior League, so I didn’t get to explore at my own leisure. I did request to get a community placement there through the Junior League, so hopefully I will be spending a lot more time there.
5. visit the Contemporary Arts Museum
6. visit the Printing History Museum
7. go to the George Ranch (as an adult) – that’s a real, live, working Texas ranch. Yee-haw!
8. go to Washington-on-the-Brazos
9. see a movie at the Angelika – Dang it. Should have done it while I could. The Angelika closed for business not long after I posted this. BUT a new theater is coming to that space called Sundance, so I will probably go check that out!
10. see a movie at the old River Oaks – Done! Saw The King’s Speech there. It was amazing, both the theater and the movie. The theater has a bar, and you can bring your drinks in with you. It’s no Alamo Drafthouse, but it’ll do. Hope to see many more movies there this year.
11. ice skate at the Galleria (as an adult)
12. visit the Cockrell Butterfly Center – Okay, I kind of did this. During the whole “Corpse Flower” craze at the HMNS, we went in the middle of the night to smell it see it bloom. The line wound through the butterfly exhibit, but it was dark out, so hard to see any butterflies. We need to go again to make it count. I did see the most INCREDIBLE thing there though: a working apiary. The bees live inside a clear beehive inside the museum, with a tube to the outside so they can gather pollen and nectar or whatever. It was awesome.
13. visit the Planetarium
14. see a show at Miller Outdoor Theater – Done! Saw an Elvis movie. And part of “Little Shop of Horrors”. Good times.
15. visit the 1940s Air Terminal Museum
16. visit the Art Car Museum
17. visit Bayou Bend Museum
18. Find Howard Hughes grave at Glenwood Cemetary
19. visit all the old houses at the Heritage Society site in Downtown – Done! We brought Andrew’s sister when she visited from Boston. I loved every second of it, she was probably bored to tears. Oh well.
20. make a retablo for Lawndale’s Day of the Dead event
21. visit the Menil Collection (as an adult) – Done! Again with Andrew’s poor sister. She was dragged all over town.
22. visit Rienzi
23. visit the Officer Lucy Dog Park
24. visit the Danny Jackson Dog Park – Done! We walk there from our house occasionally. Grover does NOT like other dogs though, so it’s mostly for us humans to enjoy the other dogs.
25. walk all the way around Memorial Park
26. watch the Houston Marathon – Done! I am on the board for Young Texans Against Cancer, and we are one of the Run For A Reason charities who benefit from the Marathon. We got up early on Sunday morning to man a “hoopla station” and cheer our runners on. So fun!
28. stay at the Magnolia
29. visit the Jade Temple
30. visit the Forbidden Gardens – DOUBLE DANG IT. I missed this one too. Closed forever. The expansion of Grand Parkway ate into their property and they decided to close instead of operating next to a busy road. I HATE THE GRAND PARKWAY.
31. kayak the Buffalo Bayou
32. Arboretum – Done. We had a staff meeting there. It was beautiful, and a very different spot for a meeting (in a good way). Though we did have to ask the funeral next door to turn down the rock and roll so we could hear each other. I am not making this up.
33. Explore the Downtown tunnel system
34. ride in the Moonlight Ramble
35. hang out and explore Discovery Green
36. Go to an Aurora Picture Show event
Places to eat:
1. Reef
2. Shade
5. Kim Son
6. Tiny Boxwoods – Done. Delicious. Haven’t been back as I’m never in the mood to fight people for tables. Although they are opening a second location in the old JMH grocery store by my house, so I will probably walk to that one.
7. Hobbit Cafe (as an adult)
8. Mark’s
9. Black Lab pub – Done. Delicious. Sat outside on a gorgeous day, and drank mimosas. La. Andrew ate a piece of salmon fried in a ball of cheese or something. Possibly his personal heaven.
10. Glass Wall
11. Candelari’s – Done. Meh.
13. Mucky Duck
14. Daniel Wong’s Kitchen – Done. This is now our delivery Chinese food. They have fantastic fried rice.
15. Fogo de Chao
16. Brennan’s – Done. Visited during Houston Restaurant Week (Now Restaurant Month, I hear.) Had the turtle soup, something delicious that I can’t remember, and the bananas foster. DELICIOUS.
18. Tony Mandola’s Gulf Coast Kitchen – Done. On the same night that we saw The King’s Speech at the old River Oaks Theater, we ate at Tony Mandola’s. It turned out to be the last night at the old location, so I was thisclose to missing this one too! They are reopened in temporary space by Chuy’s on Westheimer, but parking sucks, so no thanks. Food was good, though.
19. Bar Annie/RDG
20. Himalaya
Courtney Hoyt 