3-Day Itinerary – Visiting Houston with GF for the first time this weekend

Hello Houston!

My GF and I (both 23) are international students here in the Midwest US, we just graduated and have been to other bigger cities in the country (Chicago, NYC, DC, etc.) But we decided to visit your wonderful city this weekend. We'll be there for about 3 and half days, not enough to explore everything Houston has to offer, but just enough to see the highlights of it. We'll be renting a car too since we heard that is Houston's best mode of transportation.

Our main goal for this trip is to spend some quality time together, exploring the city and relaxing, while not spending a large sum of money. I built a rough itinerary and wanted to get some feedback from you folks (the locals) if anything seems improper. Please let me know if there is anything that I have missed about Houston, and any recommendations on where to get food and what else to do!

Thank you!

We'll be staying at an Airbnb in midtown, near Buffalo Bayou Park.
We also intentionally avoid the Aquarium because we heard it's pretty depressing.

Day 0.5 (THU)

• We arrive in Houston at about 6 PM.
• POST (dinner) + Skylawn

Day 1 (FRI)

• Baby Barnaby's (breakfast)
• Gerald D. Hines Waterfall
• Space Center
• Kemah Boardwalk
• Landry's Seafood House (dinner)

Day 2 (SAT)

• Blacksmith (breakfast)
• The Galleria/River Oaks District
• Xin Chao (lunch)
• Museum of Natural Science
• Buffalo Bayou Park
• Nancy's Hustle (dinner)

Day 3 (SUN)

• Chinatown
• Golden Dim Sum (brunch)
• Memorial Park
• Our last day in Houston ends around 5 PM

My GF also really like going to cafes, so we'll pick a couple of these to visit:

• Blendin Coffee Club
• Tenfold
• Giant Leap
• Cavo Coffee
• La La Land Cafe