Houston Day 2

This morning was much better. Jake's breathing gets better each treatment and we are now down to only two a day. I think tomorrow will be one and then we should be done. Thank god. I need to make an entry on that experience by itself. Jake again was dry all day and even went number 2 in the potty. We had breakfast at Starbucks in the lobby and off we went to the Aquarium. I kept telling Doug that it looked familiar. Sure enough when we were at lunch we saw it was the same company that did the Denver Aquarium. How appropriate as it is a year ago this weekend we were in Denver. The boys loved the Aquarium. We did the exhibit and they had so much fun. This place has a white tiger exhibit. Go figure. An Aquarium with tigers. We ate lunch at the restaurant there. It has North America's tallest tank. They had rides for the kids so we got the all day pass. That worked out great as the boys got to ride things over and over. We rode the train that went through a shark exhibit, the Ferris Wheel, Merry Go Round and the Lighthouse Dive. The dive is one of those rides that bounces you up and down. Jake thought that was fantastic. He kept wanting to ride it over and over. Thanks to the passes they rode it tons. He and William would laugh and then scream. Jake is just fearless. At some point over the last week Jake has stopped calling William Bubee. He calls him simply William. It is adorable. We had dinner across the street at Fox Sports Grill and it was really good. Pricey but good. Tomorrow for breakfast it is on with the Beignets. I found a place up the street that touts to have them as good as Cafe du Monde. I guess we will see. It is back home tomorrow for Doug and the boys. I will be here another night as I am seeing customers on Monday. When I get home I will post all the pics from the trip. They are really cute. I even let some of the shots Doug took of me from behind stay and not get deleted. LOL!
TTYL,
Raye

Doug & William on the Carousel

Me & Jake on the carousel

The shark at the end of the Shark Express

The boys laughing on the Lighthouse ride

Me telling Doug to just stop taking my pic. The others are almost all deleted

Houston Day 1

We got her last night to the hotel about 8. The boys did great on the way down. Much better than I thought. I was still worried about Jake but his breathing is almost completely back to normal. He had a rough night but is great today. We got up and moving early. We got breakfast in a not so good part of Houston and headed to the Johnson Space Center. We got there right after they opened. We did not get to do the tram ride as these buses full or tourists keep the line too long to stand in with two small children. But that was ok. I will say I was a little underwhelmed. The exhibits were not much in ways of exhibits. The boys did have fun in the kids area. They played and got some energy spent. Our hotel is right across the street from the Galleria so we are going to check that out tonight. We can just walk across the street. Jake is for all intents and purposes is potty trained. Knock on wood. Except for a little accident during his breathing treatment about 30 minutes ago he has not gone in his pull up since Monday. He has been wearing underwear under his pull up. Of course as soon as he and I make a big ceremony about throwing away his last pull up he has an accident. Oh well. I will take it anyway. At least he will go in a public bathroom. That makes things much easier. I will post tomorrow and let everyone know how tomorrow goes.
Take care,
Raye

View from our hotel room - The J W Marriott

Doug sitting in the space chair thing

Kisses in the shuttle mock up

Jake, William and I in the Apollo capsule