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Houston "bucket list"
Since I will (hopefully) be moving soon, a friend of mine suggested that I make myself a list of all the Houston things I want to do before I move. So, I'm looking for some suggestions! It can be events, places to visit, or places that I must eat (for the first time or to go again) before I leave. Any ideas? 
Re: Houston "bucket list"
See the Beer Can House
Have a frozen screwdriver at the Volcano
off the top of my head and in no order
Hermann Park/Japanese Gardens
King Tut exhibit
Rodeo cookoff
Beer can house
art car parade or art car museum
walk the downtown tunnels, eat lunch, go to 60th observatory floor in Chase Tower
eat at Brennans
Montrose crepe guy, Melange Creperie, can also be found at city hall farmers market on wednesdays...prepare to wait
see how long it takes you to drive the entire beltway 8 (j/k, but always wondered this)
Tour NASA
I forgot all about the beer can house! I'll have to take G there when he's in town. I know he'll like it.
I put NASA on my list too. I went there in jr high, but I'd like to go again before I leave.
If I were moving from Houston, this is what I would do-
Drive across the ship channel bridge (610 and the beltway one)
drive through the tunnel in Pasadena
go see San Jac Monument/Battleship TX, eat at Monument Inn and watch the ships, then ride back across the Lynchburg Ferry
Drive the entire 1960/highway 6 loop (did this in high school for some reason, had a really good time)
Go the Arboretum (Mercer and Houston)
Go to the zoo, ride the train, roll down the hill at Miller Outdoor theater
Go see a TX beach
Go see the buffalo at Bear Creek Park
Go tour Bayou Bend
go shop on 19th street in the Heights
Drive past all my favorite houses in Houston
Go to Ninfa's on Navigation/ Cafe Adobe on Shepard/Lubys/Whataburger
Go tubing in the Hill Coutry (and all the hill country activities) go to Austin(and all the Austin must do things)
hit up one more Warrenton/Round Top antique show
go to my favorite flower nursery
go visit the old terminal at Hobby Airport and watch the planes take off
go drive past my elementary, middle, and high school- drive through UH
drive through St. Thomas, Rice
My list is a little on the long side. I'm sure I could come up with more. I really love this town and Texas in general.
YEE HAW!
I'm following Kimmer up to Detroit! My dad is still in Spring, and my brother is in Galveston, so I'll be back. I just know I won't be around for as much stuff in the future.
: ) If you will be here during azalea season, walk all along by the museum, rice university campus (especially the main drive that goes up to the "main" entrance), and the homes in that area and just take in the eye candy. it's like bushes full of pink peeps. it is my absolute favorite thing about houston.
the Bayou Bend Collection/Hogg Mansion (where westcott dead ends at Memorial, just keep driving to the end of westcott) is also amazing.
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Like the lists in pps: art car museum, beer can house, bayou bend (during spring flowers if possible), menil collection and other museums in museum district, San Jacinto and battleship park, NASA.
then in addition to what everyone else said I would try to get to San Antonio and do all the tourist stuff there, go to hill country, etc. We spent every weekend for a month doing all the stuff within a couple hours of Houston before we moved.
Everyone has good suggestions, but there are a few things that I wish we had been able to do before we left.
- Bluebonnet pictures (we only went twice)
- Visit more museums (we only made it to the Children's Museum)
- San Antonio (we went once, but it was a drive-by trip and we were only there a few hours) including Sea World
- drive the Beltway and/or the 610 loop, just because. Roads here are like a big grid, odds are good I'll never be able to drive in a circle like that again
There's probably more, but that's all I can think of right now..