A beautiful weekend in Houston and Galveston

We used the long weekend to go to Houston and check out a big carshow and visit Linde in Galveston. Weather has changed since Thursday. From almost 30C (upper 80s) down to 10-20C (50-70F) and even frost at night. So we had to pack our jackets and explore Houston. Not even shure if it was due to the long weekend, but downtown Houston was veeerrryy quiet. Almost empty. Around was a lot of traffic, but inside it was like a ghosttown.
We walked from our currently Hotel (currently under renovation, but still great) to the carshow. It was the O'Reilly Autorama show. Tons of custom cars, Hot Rods, restorated cars... Was a great thing to see those cars. Mustangs, Cobras, Corvettes...

See more pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/bigmek71/Houston_OReillyAutorama?authkey=Gv1sRgCMeU4Ji3mIuJqwE&feat=directlink

On saturday we drove down to Galveston at the golf of mexico. Weather was warmer than the day before. Warm enough to walk on the beach with Linde and even go into the water with the feet :-)

The three of us
With Linde on the beach

A hardcore surfer girl

Houston


Debby Ryan from the Disney TV Series ZACK and CODY giving autographs
The BATMOBILE
A nice 1930 Ford Model A Roadster

Fried Thanksgiving Turkey

We were in the great situation that a colleague, Brad, invited us to participate his 13th Thanksgiving Dinner with fried Turkeys. It was a really great experience. I have had a regular Thanksgiving turkey several years ago, but having a fried turkey was something new. A great crowd of Brads friends, family and colleagues gave us as some newbies a warm welcome and we had a great day. We were, needless to say, stuffed.

Again on 6th Street

It was the last night for some of my colleagues from Japan and Germany, so we went to 6th Street. Dagmar and Josefine dropped us off and we went to some Live Music Bars. Blue Moon, Dizzy Rooster. Also Coyote Ugly was on the list. Since my japanese colleague heard from his colleague it is good. Well it is good, sometimes. But I guess due to Thanks giving all the nice waitresses were on vacation and the more ugly Coyote's were present. So we took off very fast. The Live Music was good at the Blue Moon. Dizzy Rooster was ok, but not pretty crowded. Music was more Rock. Was a nice night on 6th. Now we will enjoy a Thanks Giving Turkey at a colleagues place near Round Rock.