I woke up relatively early on Saturday, and decided to have breakfast at the attached restaurant, but every seat was either full or had dirty dishes in front of it.
Google told me that there was a really good breakfast taco place nearby, and so I started walking. I walked completely around the high rise before discovering that it wasn’t a restaurant type situation, more a food court thing. It was pretty good!
I had time to kill before Meow Wolf opened, so I decided to go to the Health Museum. It is a little interactive museum, mostly for kids, but it had some interesting exhibits:-)
As I was driving to the health museum, I had passed by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and since the health museum was smaller than I expected, I decided to make the most of the 8$ parking I had to pay, and walk on down.
Apparently, there are 3 museums connected by underground walking tunnels, and the one I entered was the Ancient/European. I’ve never been too big on art museums, couldn’t tell you why, but that day I had some real “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” moments. Like when they’re just staring in awe?
Any way, I spent longer in there than I expected, so I decided to go to MW after lunch, which gave me time to walk down the tunnels to go see the modern art museum. I’d have liked to go see the “world” exhibits as well, but I’d already spent half the day there and I didn’t want to make it a full day, and as you can maybe tell, because of the 3 Meow Wolf visits, I’m kinda in to modern art.
Lunch was at The Hobbit Cafe, which I was mostly going to for the ambiance/to get my brother A some souvenirs. What I didn’t know was that it was also an extremely impressive mead bar. It was a bit chilly, so I got a hot mead that was infused with earl grey spices, but I was so curious (their mead menu is almost as large as their food menu), that I decided to get a flight of others as well. They were “what if mead was red wine”, “what if it was cranberry”, and “blackberry mint”.
I expected the cranberry to be my favorite, as it is my favorite juice, but the red wine one beat it out 100 fold, and the blackberry mint was one of the most refreshing things I’ve ever had. I don’t think I took pics of the names, but if anyone wants to know, I bought bottles of them, and I can let you know, lol 🙂
I just realized that both paragraphs that I just wrote were about the mead, lol. The food was also amazing! It might be my favorite restaurant, which is a weird feeling for someone from DFW :-p, I don’t know if the Houstonians share in our weird little rivalry thing, but I’d almost move there for that restaurant.
Almost two full posts before coming to the reason that I chose Houston… Meow Wolf!
Meow Wolf Denver is “four planets smooshed into one, run by a transit authority”, Grapevine is “places can be magical if inhabited my magical people”, and Houston is “small radio station thrown out into the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the universe”. There is really now way to describe them, and the few/many pics I take don’t slightly do them justice, because all 3 (and probably the other two) bathe you in an ever changing soundscape as well.
I’ll write up Sunday later 🙂
A Long Walk To Clear My Head 
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