Entries from March 2008 ↓

Yagi-san – Day 18 – Sunday

Headed back to Houston.  Ate breakfast at McDonalds on the way:

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We went back to my house and rested for a while.  Then we went to the Woodlands for Easter dinner with my dad and Carole.  Stephen and Amma played Shogi while we waited for a seat at the Cheese Cake Factory:

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Afterwards, we went home and worked on our garden:

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We had dinner at our house that night:

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And I play Yagi-san some more Shogi…Here are some shots of the ending

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Yagi-san – Day 17 – Saturday

Breakfast at the Hilton… worked on teaching Christopher Shogi while we were waiting… (Do you know Shogi?  you should.. check out http://www.IPlayShogi.com)

 

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Then we went Canoeing on Village Creek (feeds into the Neches near the Big Thicket national preserve)

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Then we ate Dinner at Fuddruckers.  And played Shogi (seeing a trend?)

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Then we went to Spindletop

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Then we dropped Sonia, Stephen, and Christopher at the hotel.. then Yagi-san and I went to Orange.

We went to the Stark Art Museum

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We missed the last tour of the Stark house by 15 minutes…  At the Stark house they have a Neopolean death mask…I remember seeing it when I went on a tour in high school…  There are only three in the world… one in Paris, on in Washington DC and one in Orange Texas

We got some pictures of the outside thought

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Then we went to Shangra La, but did not see much there:

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Then we drove over to Louisiana.  The visitor center was closed, but they left some maps and handouts on the front step.

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We went back to the Texas center and they were closed too.   But they didn’t leave handouts.

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Then we headed back to the hotel..