A quiet, almost serene place with an open stage to host events. I just needed a public restroom where I didn't have to purchase anything to qualify as a customer. Low funds and I had to last another day. We got bologna and cheese and bread a couple of sodas and had a picnic in the middle of the stage. Nobody bothered us I had just let the guy at the internatonal hostel, a short hop on Metro rail from downtown to the museum district. The park is a short ride down the train to near the Randall's downtown a two block stroll to relief and demolish of the picnic supplies I had enough to eat a couple of sandwiches on the train home to Louisiana. Don't assume anything about Amtrak's prices . Ask the cost before you get two Coca-Cola's for $5. Oh yeah, the park. Convenient and affordable parking is located in an underground garage beneath the park. Pedestrian exit is a part of the stage. A fantastic glass and steel weather cover over the stairs complements the stage like a clear support for the covering the entrance and keeping one of Houston's floods from entering by opening. Even though Houston is built around a bayou and the land is a little moist on a good day. Advances in submarine doors, of all things, but a natural fit in a basement built in spite of the soil having a high percentage of water, keeps underground Houston dry in all but the severest of storms. We were in the medical center during a tropical storm my mother, God bless her, walked across the street in water up to her neck in the middle of the street to buy me yarn and crochet hooks to keep my hyperactive, with a cast on my foot, 5 year old, spoiled rotten, intelligent mind from driving her crazy if I wasn't occupied with an activity that didn't require legs. 6 weeks is forever when you're 5 with nothing to do but roam the halls of the hospital in a wheelchair, being a nuisance to the nurses asking questions and finding other kids to get in trouble with. We actually left the hospital without telling anyone and spent the day wandering around the zoo. The police had been called because I watched the time and knew when it was due and nobody could convince me that the pain wouldn't return if someone needed the nurses attention more than a hyper spoiled 5 year old who could read, tell time and gave a red crocheted Rose to every nurse that entered my room for whatever reason they felt that if you came to visit for just a few minutes and made a little boy happy. You were a member of the club and my mother wasn't needed to keep me occupied and less likely to explore the other floors looking for some kiss to play with.
I have no idea if this review is helpful, but I spent hours writing it. It's sure to be entertaining. The beginning is probably the closest to an actual review you can try to ignore my tangents but before you know it, you're sucked in before you know it. I injested lots of chemical substances I the crafting of...
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