Day 3 / 4

So we did not get to blog yesterday due to a very hectic schedule and some dodgy accommodation that will be kept between ourselves and limited readers (i.e. not to be shared in the house of 23)!

Yesterday we made our way down to Galveston Island with a stop at NASA.! Houston really did have a problem when rebekah forgot to put on her deodorant!!! We got a little tram drive around the NASA village - which employs 10,000 people and is about 300 acres - like its own wee village - just for NASA people - all the astronauts live onsite etc... (yes, i hear you thinking - this blog is not just entertaining, but also educational).!!!! rebekah nearly got rode over by some indians on the tram - this caused us to be seperated due to me wanting to stand up for the british race and push against the indian - whereas rebekah decided to leave me and go and find another seat... this resulted in me sitting with the indians and rebekah sitting in the tram behind!!!! we then went to the control room to have a little talk about what went on when young neil landed on the moon in 69... here rebekah made a new friend... a 70 year old mexican who fell asleep and decided to snore the whole way through the talk!!

We left the space centre and had an early late lunch in quiznos!!! the little waitress here clearly did not have her NVQ level 1 customer service and was allowing her daughter to avail of the drinks machine!!... they do say it doesn't take people long to pick up the twang and this certainly has been our experience... the lady had some trouble taking our order and so i proceeded to order my tom-a-toes in an american accent!!! did i mention she was mexican? how rude, making me feel like a foreigh national.!

we spent a little time in clear lake city and then made our way down to galveston island - this is where hurricane ike was last year and there were parts with quite a lot of devastation. however, it was mostly lovely! on the drive down we came across walmart - how exciting - what you have seen in the emails is very real and we very much fitted in!!! i think we will be spending a lot more time in these.. i wanted to buy a video camera but rebekah would not let me!! we also came across randalls - its like an upmarket version of walmart! here, i found some nice almond pastries and so the weight has began to pile on.!! oh also, remember jolly ranchers and mountain dew??? well they are also here!

THEN......... we reached our "motel 6" - we decided that we would drop our bags of at or accommodation!! what you see in the movies is no exaggeration - you know the freaky ones with the even freakier music?? yes those ones!!! misty was our check in administrator which really does say a lot (faith, name possibility??)... the room itself was very nice - but our naked, overweight neighbour was a little less than lovely - and worse still he was sanding his table on the decking and was a little too chatty!!

When we started to settle for the evening, rebekah realised that she (we) left the adaptor plug and extension lead behind us, so out we went again to walmart.! we went for a little drive anyway, and ended up doing some driving, and driving to the end of the world - well technically the end of Texas - but i didn't like to disappoint rebekah!!..

We went for a little walk on the beach then and then settled for the night - i have to say we had a lovely nights sleep, and chunk (our neighbour), never caused us any bother and it altogether was a pleasant stay!!

Today, we had went and bought breakfast at randalls and eat it in the park - it was very lovely! we went to Moody Gardens and Jamaica Beach! still all on the island!! here we watched our first 4D movie!! watch this space - coming to newry any time soon!! we then spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach! rebekah was a big girl and did not need too much cream, i on the other hand was much more sensible!! i spent most of my time in the water while rebekah spent ALL of her time reading a book (she is now onto "a veiled reflection") - i kid thee not - thou dost protest too much when one says they do not need too much suncream!!! - we are two very sorry wee girls tonight - lying writing this literally on fire and that sure is no exaggeration! our motto is pain is pleasure and we are sticking to it!!!

we left for san antonio at about 4pm and had a very lovely drive down! we are starting to get the hang of the roads alrite we thinks.! the sun started to set as we were driving down and it was very lovely!! as you can imagine - driving straight for 180 miles - rebekah got the book out and so i got the country music turned up and the window down and it surely was a road trip!! i picked up some great lines listening to the words of the country songs including - you can't put a dollar sign on a peace of mind!! - clever eh?

we also encountered our first tolls - these were very confusing!! they cost 1.50 and we did not have that amount in change - we proceeded to the toll anyway, and rebekah took a hissy fit - but after a few minutes and a few toots we got the money!!! on our second encounter with the toll - a mere 10 minutes later - we were very unfortunately unable to get into the right lane and so went through the EZ Tag toll resulting in a barrier coming down and crushing the roof of our car..!!!




NAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTT!!!... however, we imagine we might get a bill from our car hire company about that!!

we have found pottery barn and so are excited about going there tomorrow! think we are going to stay here two nights as there seems to be quite a bit to do! we are also going to the alamo and there are also a range of outlet stores which we are highly excited about!

We are staying tonight at another motel - although it is more like a hotel!! it does kind of smell like old people but to be honest - anything is better than the smell of rebekah's oxters!

well off to bed we go - still trying to figure out how we can sleep without our skin touching us!!!

goodnight bloggers!!!