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I need some good ideas for a nice romantic vacation. What are some good hotel recommendations? Are there any hotels in the area with jacuzzis? What kind of activities or things to do are in the area? I need help pls! Thanks =)
Answer
Here's a running list I keep of things to do around our great city of Houston and some are very romantic:
The Kemah Boardwalk
Reliant Center, Minute Maid Park, George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston Aeros, Texans, Astros, Dynamos, & the Rockets
The Aquarium downtown
Galveston Island - The Strand, the Bolivar Peninsular Ferry & Crystal Beach, Schlitterbahn Water Park, Bishop's Palace, Sea Wolf Park, Stewart Beach, Moody Gardens & IMAX, Mosquito
Cafe is a must for lunch, Pier 21 Museum on Galveston Hurricane, Lone Star Flight Museum, Texas Seaport Museum, Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, & Sea Turtle
Exhibit - Splurge on Grace Manor Bed & Breakfast in Galveston - www.gracemanor-galveston.com
Hermann Park & the Mecom Fountain. Visit the Japanese Gardens in Hermann Park-very romantic
Asian Heritage Tours, 5855 Sovereign Dr G #101 77036 832-858-2788- tea tasting, herbology, Chinese calligraphy, Dim Sum, & shopping at 30 store indoor Hong Kong City Mall in SW Houston
Clear Lake, Lake Conroe, & Lake Houston
Opera in the Heights, Theater Under the Stars
JPMorgan Chase Bank 60th floor Sky Hobby-excellent view of the city
Saint Arnold Breweryâfree beer. Saturday tours (depending how old the kids are!)
Brazos Bend State Park - Biking, hiking trails, birding, observatory
Armand Bayou Nature Center in Pasadena--2,500 acres of hiking trails, exhibits, field trips, Scout programs,birding, canoe tours, & an historic farm
George Ranch - come see a working ranch
Miller Outdoor Theater (check online for performance schedule) FREE
Discovery Green and the many other parks around town. There's horse & buggy rides
Katy Mills Mall, the Galleria, Memorial City Mall, Willowbrook Mall, River Oaks Shopping Center, The Woodlands Mall, First Colony Mall, Uptown Park, First Colony Mall, West Oaks Mall, & many others
Downtown underground tunnel systemâdaily during the week
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema & Movie Studio Grill - good pizza
Lakewood Church-an experience-the largest church in the US.
The Art Car Museum 140 Heights Blvd 77007 713-861-5526 FREE.
Williams Tower & Water Wall & 3 acre park great for pics & picnics. Also, horse & buggy rides
San Jacinto Monument & Battleground State Historical Park
Houston Ballet Company, The Houston Opera, & the Houston Symphony
Heights Gazebo & the Monthly Neighborhood Bazaar on Yale Street
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center - www.houstonarboretum.org
Rothko Chapel, Port of Houston - Tours available
Houston Zoo/Hermann Park Train & Paddle Boats. FREE on all city holidays
The 350 parks citywide (hike & bike, skate, dog, tennis, basketball, & golf)
The Houston Rodeo-in Feb/Mar-the world's largest, Houston Ship Channel,Splashtown Waterpark
Houston Skyline in the morning, at night, & on the 4th of July
Light Rail System, Visit Town Square shops & restaurants in Sugar Land
City Centre - a small city within the city at Sam Houston Tollway and I-10 - Try Flora and Muse Restaurant with it's upscale neo-Victorian décor
NASA Space Center - Go before JUN-JUL or AUG's heat, Old Town Spring
The Woodlands Water Taxi along a 1¼ mile walkway-the whole area has many shops & restaurants with 2,000 hotel rooms.
Children's Museum-Fantastic! And only $5
Over 23 museums in the Museum District alone & over 40 citywide
All the festivals held monthly in the city. Consult the Houston Chronicle newspaper's Entertainment Section each Thursday
Labyrinth on the University of Thomas Campus (3800 Montrose) It's a beautiful flagstone replica of the Labyrinth of Chartres & is flanked by rose bushes perpetually in bloom
Mercer Arboretum in Humble - www.hcp4.net/mercer/
Armand Bayou Nature Center in Pasadena--2,500 acres of hiking trails, exhibits, field trips, Scout programs - www.abnc.org
Nature Discovery Center - www.naturediscoverycenter.org
Snorkeling, Canoeing, Boating, Water Skiing, Kayaking, Sky Diving, Hot Air Balloon Rides, Kemah Bay Dinner Cruises, Plane or Helicopter Rides over Houston, Horseback Riding, Gliding, & Scuba Diving
Sam Houston Race Track
n 1 on 1 with the teacher. After you create your work of art, you paint it & they will fire it for you
Visit one of the over 10,000 restaurants offering almost 290 types of cuisine
Enjoy!
Here's a running list I keep of things to do around our great city of Houston and some are very romantic:
The Kemah Boardwalk
Reliant Center, Minute Maid Park, George R. Brown Convention Center
Houston Aeros, Texans, Astros, Dynamos, & the Rockets
The Aquarium downtown
Galveston Island - The Strand, the Bolivar Peninsular Ferry & Crystal Beach, Schlitterbahn Water Park, Bishop's Palace, Sea Wolf Park, Stewart Beach, Moody Gardens & IMAX, Mosquito
Cafe is a must for lunch, Pier 21 Museum on Galveston Hurricane, Lone Star Flight Museum, Texas Seaport Museum, Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, & Sea Turtle
Exhibit - Splurge on Grace Manor Bed & Breakfast in Galveston - www.gracemanor-galveston.com
Hermann Park & the Mecom Fountain. Visit the Japanese Gardens in Hermann Park-very romantic
Asian Heritage Tours, 5855 Sovereign Dr G #101 77036 832-858-2788- tea tasting, herbology, Chinese calligraphy, Dim Sum, & shopping at 30 store indoor Hong Kong City Mall in SW Houston
Clear Lake, Lake Conroe, & Lake Houston
Opera in the Heights, Theater Under the Stars
JPMorgan Chase Bank 60th floor Sky Hobby-excellent view of the city
Saint Arnold Breweryâfree beer. Saturday tours (depending how old the kids are!)
Brazos Bend State Park - Biking, hiking trails, birding, observatory
Armand Bayou Nature Center in Pasadena--2,500 acres of hiking trails, exhibits, field trips, Scout programs,birding, canoe tours, & an historic farm
George Ranch - come see a working ranch
Miller Outdoor Theater (check online for performance schedule) FREE
Discovery Green and the many other parks around town. There's horse & buggy rides
Katy Mills Mall, the Galleria, Memorial City Mall, Willowbrook Mall, River Oaks Shopping Center, The Woodlands Mall, First Colony Mall, Uptown Park, First Colony Mall, West Oaks Mall, & many others
Downtown underground tunnel systemâdaily during the week
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema & Movie Studio Grill - good pizza
Lakewood Church-an experience-the largest church in the US.
The Art Car Museum 140 Heights Blvd 77007 713-861-5526 FREE.
Williams Tower & Water Wall & 3 acre park great for pics & picnics. Also, horse & buggy rides
San Jacinto Monument & Battleground State Historical Park
Houston Ballet Company, The Houston Opera, & the Houston Symphony
Heights Gazebo & the Monthly Neighborhood Bazaar on Yale Street
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center - www.houstonarboretum.org
Rothko Chapel, Port of Houston - Tours available
Houston Zoo/Hermann Park Train & Paddle Boats. FREE on all city holidays
The 350 parks citywide (hike & bike, skate, dog, tennis, basketball, & golf)
The Houston Rodeo-in Feb/Mar-the world's largest, Houston Ship Channel,Splashtown Waterpark
Houston Skyline in the morning, at night, & on the 4th of July
Light Rail System, Visit Town Square shops & restaurants in Sugar Land
City Centre - a small city within the city at Sam Houston Tollway and I-10 - Try Flora and Muse Restaurant with it's upscale neo-Victorian décor
NASA Space Center - Go before JUN-JUL or AUG's heat, Old Town Spring
The Woodlands Water Taxi along a 1¼ mile walkway-the whole area has many shops & restaurants with 2,000 hotel rooms.
Children's Museum-Fantastic! And only $5
Over 23 museums in the Museum District alone & over 40 citywide
All the festivals held monthly in the city. Consult the Houston Chronicle newspaper's Entertainment Section each Thursday
Labyrinth on the University of Thomas Campus (3800 Montrose) It's a beautiful flagstone replica of the Labyrinth of Chartres & is flanked by rose bushes perpetually in bloom
Mercer Arboretum in Humble - www.hcp4.net/mercer/
Armand Bayou Nature Center in Pasadena--2,500 acres of hiking trails, exhibits, field trips, Scout programs - www.abnc.org
Nature Discovery Center - www.naturediscoverycenter.org
Snorkeling, Canoeing, Boating, Water Skiing, Kayaking, Sky Diving, Hot Air Balloon Rides, Kemah Bay Dinner Cruises, Plane or Helicopter Rides over Houston, Horseback Riding, Gliding, & Scuba Diving
Sam Houston Race Track
n 1 on 1 with the teacher. After you create your work of art, you paint it & they will fire it for you
Visit one of the over 10,000 restaurants offering almost 290 types of cuisine
Enjoy!
What gymnastics equipment is best for at home for a 5 & 6 year old?
Kathleen
What gymnastics equipment should I buy for my 5 year old girl and my 6 year old boy to have at home for extra practice? They are about 1-2 years before starting the competitive level. I don't have a lot of room at home. Will a junior training bar be too flimsy/small for a 60 lb. boy? Should I get an incline mat? A foldable one? Please name the top three things I should buy that will work now and for the next couple of years.
Answer
Okay, I have four suggestions:
1. A Chin-Up Bar - the kind that hangs inside a door jamb. This can be used for pullups, chinups, leg lifts, and a variety of other strength exercises. Developing upper body strength will give both of them a huge advantage. Guys have four events that use primarily upper body strength (Rings, P-Bars, High Bar and Pommel Horse). Strong arms are a must! Girls only have one "arm" event (Uneven Bars) - and since they don't use those muscles for much else, that's where girls are usually the weakest. Conditioning at home will give her a huge head start. Make a little chart to hang by the bar so they can keep track of how many pullups, leg lifts, etc. they do - and reward them with a small treat when they reach a certain number. But don't force them to do it - let it be their choice. Otherwise it will become a chore and they'll avoid that bar like the plague. Be sure to hang the bar low enough that they can reach it themselves (you can raise it as they grow taller). And make sure they know it is NOT to be used for swinging or flipping. If they slip off while swinging or hanging upside down, they could be severely injured. (This is why I would strongly discourage you from getting a training bar at home). There will plenty of time to practice skills at the gym, with their coach - and if they've been working on their strength at home, those skills will come a lot more quickly.
2. A foldable Panel Mat - this can be used for a zillion different things throughout their gymnastics careers. Coaches use folded up panel mats for all kinds of drills and exercizes, which your kids will be able to practice at home. Unfolded, they can use it to practice skills that they've learned at gymnastics. Just make sure they're doing skills that they can safely perform on their own. They should never attempt something at home that they haven't already mastered at the gym.
3. For your daughter: a low floor beam. She'll be able to use this for as long as she's in gymnastics. It doesn't need to be elevated; in fact, she'll actually get more out of it if it lays flat on the floor. When you eliminate the fear (and danger) of falling off, she'll be more likely to do a lot more repetitions of the skill she's practicing - which is the whole point of a practice beam.
3. For your son: A Mushroom and/or a set of floor pommels like this:
http://www.theamericangym.com/proddetail.asp?prod=T%2D178
Pommel Horse is the guys' toughest event. The more he can practice, the better!
I wouldn't recommend an incline mat. For one thing, they're huge and bulky. Unless you have a place to store it (and the energy to put it away after each use), it will become a new piece of living room furniture - and the primary colors they come in tend to clash with most home decor! Also, it won't be useful for very long - they're generally just used for learning a few beginning level skills. And most importantly - incline mats are used in the learning stages of a skill, with the help or supervision of a coach. Having one at home will tempt your kids to try skills they can't do by themselves - which is not only dangerous, but it will cause them to learn bad habits.
Same goes for any other type of gymnastics equipment. Just not a good idea to have at home. If they teach themselves a skill at home, it will most likely be wrong - and then the coach will have to back them up and re-teach it, which will make the process longer. And then there's the safety issue. Even if you think your kids are responsible and careful, one of their friends might decide to try something - and next thing you know, you've got a lawsuit on your hands. And you WILL be found at fault, because you've made dangerous equipment accessible without qualified instruction.
Hope this helps some!
Okay, I have four suggestions:
1. A Chin-Up Bar - the kind that hangs inside a door jamb. This can be used for pullups, chinups, leg lifts, and a variety of other strength exercises. Developing upper body strength will give both of them a huge advantage. Guys have four events that use primarily upper body strength (Rings, P-Bars, High Bar and Pommel Horse). Strong arms are a must! Girls only have one "arm" event (Uneven Bars) - and since they don't use those muscles for much else, that's where girls are usually the weakest. Conditioning at home will give her a huge head start. Make a little chart to hang by the bar so they can keep track of how many pullups, leg lifts, etc. they do - and reward them with a small treat when they reach a certain number. But don't force them to do it - let it be their choice. Otherwise it will become a chore and they'll avoid that bar like the plague. Be sure to hang the bar low enough that they can reach it themselves (you can raise it as they grow taller). And make sure they know it is NOT to be used for swinging or flipping. If they slip off while swinging or hanging upside down, they could be severely injured. (This is why I would strongly discourage you from getting a training bar at home). There will plenty of time to practice skills at the gym, with their coach - and if they've been working on their strength at home, those skills will come a lot more quickly.
2. A foldable Panel Mat - this can be used for a zillion different things throughout their gymnastics careers. Coaches use folded up panel mats for all kinds of drills and exercizes, which your kids will be able to practice at home. Unfolded, they can use it to practice skills that they've learned at gymnastics. Just make sure they're doing skills that they can safely perform on their own. They should never attempt something at home that they haven't already mastered at the gym.
3. For your daughter: a low floor beam. She'll be able to use this for as long as she's in gymnastics. It doesn't need to be elevated; in fact, she'll actually get more out of it if it lays flat on the floor. When you eliminate the fear (and danger) of falling off, she'll be more likely to do a lot more repetitions of the skill she's practicing - which is the whole point of a practice beam.
3. For your son: A Mushroom and/or a set of floor pommels like this:
http://www.theamericangym.com/proddetail.asp?prod=T%2D178
Pommel Horse is the guys' toughest event. The more he can practice, the better!
I wouldn't recommend an incline mat. For one thing, they're huge and bulky. Unless you have a place to store it (and the energy to put it away after each use), it will become a new piece of living room furniture - and the primary colors they come in tend to clash with most home decor! Also, it won't be useful for very long - they're generally just used for learning a few beginning level skills. And most importantly - incline mats are used in the learning stages of a skill, with the help or supervision of a coach. Having one at home will tempt your kids to try skills they can't do by themselves - which is not only dangerous, but it will cause them to learn bad habits.
Same goes for any other type of gymnastics equipment. Just not a good idea to have at home. If they teach themselves a skill at home, it will most likely be wrong - and then the coach will have to back them up and re-teach it, which will make the process longer. And then there's the safety issue. Even if you think your kids are responsible and careful, one of their friends might decide to try something - and next thing you know, you've got a lawsuit on your hands. And you WILL be found at fault, because you've made dangerous equipment accessible without qualified instruction.
Hope this helps some!
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