Our Experience with Taste of Texas Tour

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If you live in Houston and have a fourth grader in homeschool, you need to read this. Taste of Texas (the restaurant) gives a tour and history lesson free to fourth graders. Mostly it's private schools that take advantage, but they also open it up to home schoolers. It was well worth our time and very inspirational for us.

Nina and Edd Hendee are the owners of Taste of Texas, and they hosted the tour. I love that they do the tour themselves and they don't delegate it to one of their managers. We went of February 15, and both owners were at the restaurant bright and early the next morning with stories of a very busy Valentines night the evening before. Nina says she comes every morning at 7:30 to walk around the building and pray over it. She also kissed her husband in front of all the kids. They were super sweet to each other despite being busy and stressed. 

Nina Hendee is a Texas history relic collector. The Taste of Texas restaurant is basically a museum; I don't think there is any other museum with such great artifacts. She showed the kids original documents from Texas history with signatures of the founders. She also went through a very thorough history lesson of all the flags over Texas, the Alamo, the battle of San Jacinto and more. She is very passionate about Texas history and it was so good for the kids to see. 

My girls enjoyed it a lot. They were inspired not just about Texas History, but about having a passion for something and "going for it". They didn't love dressing nice (as you can see), but at the end they were really glad we went. 




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