Road Trip 2019 - Day 3

Day 3 dawned and we were off on our next adventure. The first stop...breakfast! I mean it is the most important meal of the day, right? We actually ended up finding a small french bakery where we had DELICIOUS pastries!!! We stayed near the Galleria and went to that area to see a random waterfall wall. Why you ask? Because it sounded cool and who doesn't love random things?

Natalie had to get her mocha in the morning as always!

The waterfall wall!

Taa-daa!!!

 

Well, the waterfall wall was definitely random, but nifty. We took it in for a good 5, maybe 10, minutes and then we were off to the downtown area to see Houston's aquarium. Instead of hopping back on the interstate we decided to take some city roads which was a good decision: 1) even though we had been in Houston for less than a day, we had already figured out that I-610 is ALWAYS backed up with traffic. 2) You get to see cool parts of the city when staying off the interstate. 

Quick note about Houston, it is a nice city. Like really nice. Definitely one of the nicest cities I've been to. You can definitely tell that there is money in the area. 

Houston's Downtown Aquarium

 

Meet my new boyfriend!

 

Look, another random waterfall wall. Apparently that is popular in Houston

The Aquarium was small, which we knew, but still enjoyable to walk through. The head scratchier about the aquarium is that its biggest draw is....wait for it....wait for it...wait for it...white tigers!!! Yeah, I don't understand why an aquarium has white tigers...but cool! 

I also found my new home at the aquarium.

Wait, is it alive?

Oh good! It was just napping!

Unfortunately, only one of the four tigers they had was on exhibit.

 

After the aquarium, we hopped onto I-10 and headed towards Pensacola, FL, which unfortunately meant going through Louisiana again. We did find a candy store that claimed to have the world's largest gummy bear, which you could take home for only $150. Pass. I mean, I love gummy bears, but not that much.

Natalie driving through Louisiana...actually that face was because I was taking her picture, AGAIN!

We decided to drive through New Orleans since neither one of us had been there. With our impeccable timing, we hit New Orleans at rush hour (we had that great timing for most cities). Yay! And unlike normal people, instead of go straight through New Orleans and then going back up, we decided to circle New Orleans and then head back west some so we could catch the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, which is the longest bridge over water at 23.83 miles long. Yep, we are crazy! 
 

New Orleans

Superdome...we keep collecting stadiums.

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway

Our snack on the causeway...Dunkin Donuts

 This detour took a little longer than we were hoping, so by the time we got back to Mississippi it was dark and we decided to skip looking for the lunar exhibit. Too bad! So Sad! But alas and alack, we made it to Pensacola.



"That's All Folks!"