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If you remember lying in thick grass fields as a child in one of the vast planes outside of Houston and looking up at the sky to determine the shapes of clouds you aren’t alone. We’re taking that great imagination and concocting a weekend itinerary fit for a king this weekend.

Who knew that fish could be so exciting? On Friday, August 15th, you’ll open up a can of laughter as Tuna Does Vegas hits The Grand 1984 Opera House at 8:00 PM. Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas, and all it’s inhabitants follow conservative radio host Arles Struvie as he makes the journey to Sin City to renew his vows with his wife. All of the hilarious characters are depicted by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams and according to The Dallas Voice "Tuna Does Vegas hits the jackpot!" On the other hand, you gather some fantastic imagery with the lyrics that Dierks Bentley provides over at the Sam Houston Race Park at 10:15 PM. If a 10:15 PM show is way past your bedtime, hit up The Wortham Center for Dance Houston’s City Wide Festival starting at 7:30 PM. With hip hop, ballroom, contemporary and cultural styles, there will be something for everyone!

Stuff your face like a five year old at a candy store when you hit up participating restaurants during Houston Restaurant Week 2008 on Saturday, August 16th. With three course gourmet dinners for 35 smackeroos per person you’ll forget your adult weight woes, if only for one night. Click here to see the complete list of participating restaurants and menus. When you can zip up your pants again, land yourself some Kenny Chesney tickets and take your cowboy hat over to Reliant Stadium at 4:00 PM. If you’re looking for something a little more imaginative, land yourself some Nine Inch Nails tickets and join the "March of Pigs" over at the Toyota Center in Houston at 8:00 PM.

Get your thinking caps and rest and throw on a baseball cap on Sunday, August 17th when you take your Astros tickets over to Minute Maid Park for their 1:05 PM game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Later, grab those little masterminds and head on over to the Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston for the Russian American Kids Circus starting at 7:00 PM. With acrobatics and death defying stunts from children aged six to sixteen, you’ll be dazzled by the amount of skill these young ones possess. So travel back to a simpler time when your imagination ran wild and weekend planning was easy because we’ve got a weekend itinerary fit for the most fanciful mind in Houston!

There's something new to see every day at one of the houston's hundreds of live entertainment venues. You've got to take time to see some basketball at the Toyota Center, or a great Houston baseball game at Minute Maid Park with the Houston Astros.

Houston's Museum of Natural Science is a place you simply have to see to believe. One of Houstons's top attractions, the museum houses fabulous dinosaurs, jewels, and ancient Egyptian treasures, and it remains one of the best things to do in Houston today. Exhibition halls are fitted with state-of-the-art devices and tools, such as video, computerized interactive events, and more, designed to educate visitors on the formation and life-forms of the seven continents, and ancient traditions and cultures of people far and wide. The Strake Hall of Malacology gives a rare glance into the living of invertebrates and includes a sizeable collection of shells, as well as live creatures. The world famous Foucault's Pendulum, an apparauts which physically demonstrates the rotation of the Earth relative to the fixed stars, is also housed in the museum, and you should not miss this excellent Houston attraction. Some of the largest gem stones in the world can be viewed in Cullen Hall, among the amazing examples of humankind's obsession with extracting precious stones from the earth's crust. Houston's Museum of Natural Science is a world class attraction right here in the Lone Star State.

A mission to Houston cannot be complete without a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA's amazing Johnson Space Center. You can see the Historic Mission Control Center, from which the most famous American visits to outer space were controlled, the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility, or the current Mission Control Center. The Saturn V Complex at Rocket Park is also open to the public, and nobody can forget seeing these splendid vehicles and their accessory equipment. You may even get to watch astronauts training for real upcoming missions into space!

If the Texas weather has you a little hot under the collar, then visit the Adventure Bay Water Theme Park. There is no better way to cool down with the kids in the summer! Adventure Bay Water Theme Park's extensive network of waterslides, uphill "gravity defying" water coaster, other rides, and cool Houston attractions will help you enjoy yourself for hours, giving kids a chance to cut loose while Mom and Dad can chill out too! You'll be guaranteed to be treasuring your Houston memories if you pay a visit to this dreamy place, and those memories will be vivid and colorful!.

Staying with the watery theme, the 500,000 gallon barrel of fun, the Houston Downtown Aquarium, from the shark pool through which you can ride in a train, to the ferris wheel, to the excellent lookout tower from which you can survey the whole amazing underwater world, is a place of wonder. It is a fantastic place to visit, with its 90-foot diving bell ferris wheel, food courts, and its other great Houston attractions. The 7-acre complex contains 5 water-themed fun-packed sections, such as a Louisiana swamp, observation tower, a tropical river River, and even a shipwreck.

If you're traveling into Houston for the first time, check out this quick overview of tourism and transportation in the Energy Capital of the World.

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Some helpful information from the Wikipedia:

Houston is a multicultural city with a large and growing international community. The city is home to the nation's third largest concentration of consular offices representing 86 nations. Houston is designated as a world-class city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network. Houston received the official nickname of "Space City" in 1967 because it is home to NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. Other nicknames include "H-Town," "Screwston," "The Big Heart," "Bayou City," "Clutch City," "Hustletown," and "Magnolia City."

Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene. The Theater District is located downtown and is home to nine major performing arts organizations and six performance halls. It is the second largest concentration of theater seats in a downtown area in the United States. Houston is one of only five United States cities with permanent, professional, resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines: opera (Houston Grand Opera), ballet (Houston Ballet), music (Houston Symphony Orchestra), and theater (The Alley Theatre). Houston is also home to many local folk artists, art groups and various smaller progressive arts organizations. Houston attracts many touring Broadway acts, concerts, shows, and exhibitions for a variety of interests. Houston is home to the Bayou City Art Festival, which is considered to be one of the top five art festivals in the United States

The Museum District is home to many popular cultural institutions and exhibits, attracting more than 7 million visitors a year. Notable facilities located in the district include The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Houston Zoo. Located in the nearby Montrose area are The Menil Collection and Rothko Chapel. Many venues scattered across Houston regularly host local and touring rock, blues, country, hip hop and Tejano musical acts. Unfortunately, there has never been a widely renowned music scene in Houston. Artists seem to relocate to other parts of the United States once attaining some level of success. A notable exception to the rule is Houston hip-hop, which celebrates the unique southern flavor and attitude of its roots. This has given rise to a strong, independent hip-hop music scene, influencing and influenced by the larger Southern hip hop and gangsta rap communities. Many Houstonian hip-hop artists have attained commercial success, including Bun B, Chamillionaire, Mike Jones, Lil' Flip, and Beyoncé.

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Houston's freeway system is made up of 575.5 miles of freeways and expressways in a 10-county metro area. Its highway system uses a hub-and-spoke freeway structure serviced by multiple loops. The innermost loop is Interstate 610, which encircles downtown, the medical center, and many core neighborhoods with around a 10-mile diameter. Beltway 8 and its freeway core, the Sam Houston Tollway, form the middle loop at a diameter of roughly 25 miles. A proposed highway project, State Highway 99 (The Grand Parkway), would form a third loop outside of Houston. Currently, the completed portion of State Highway 99 runs from just north of Interstate 10, west of Houston, to U.S. Highway 59 in Sugar Land, southwest of Houston, and was completed in 1994. Houston also lies along the route of the proposed Interstate 69 NAFTA superhighway that will link Canada, the U.S. industrial Midwest, Texas, and Mexico. Other spoke freeways either planned or under construction include the Fort Bend Parkway, Hardy Toll Road, Crosby Freeway, and the future Alvin Freeway.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, or METRO, provides public transportation in the form of buses, light rail, and lift vans. METRO's various forms of public transportation still do not connect many of the suburbs to the greater city, causing Houstonians to rely on the automobile as a primary source of transportation. METRO began light rail service (METRORail) on January 1, 2004. The inaugural track runs about 8 miles (13 km) from northern Downtown at UH–Downtown to the Texas Medical Center and Reliant Park. METRO is currently in the design phase of a 10-year expansion plan that will add five more lines to the existing system.

Amtrak, the national rail passenger system, provides service to Houston via the Sunset Limited (Los Angeles–New Orleans), which stops at a train station on the north side of the downtown area. The station saw 10,855 boardings and alightings in fiscal year 2006.

Houston is served by two commercial airports. The largest is George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), the ninth-busiest in the United States for total passengers, and seventeenth-busiest worldwide. Bush Intercontinental currently ranks third in the United States for non-stop domestic and international service with 182 destinations. In 2006, the United States Department of Transportation named George Bush Intercontinental Airport the fastest-growing of the top ten airports in the United States. Houston is the headquarters of Continental Airlines and Bush Intercontinental is Continental Airlines' largest hub. The airline offers more than 700 daily departures from Houston. In early 2007, Bush Intercontinental Airport was named a model "port of entry" for international travelers by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The second-largest commercial airport in Houston is William P. Hobby Airport (named Houston International Airport until 1967). The airport operates primarily small to medium-haul flights and is the only airport in Houston served by Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways. Houston's aviation history is showcased in the 1940 Air Terminal Museum located in the old terminal building on the west side of Hobby Airport. The third-largest airport is Ellington Field, a former U.S. Air Force base, used by military, commercial, government and general aviation sectors.