Date night in H-Town: 11 things Veep Mike Pence and the missus can do on their local layover

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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Second Lady Karen Pence, will be spending a few hours in Houston on Friday night through Saturday morning before jetting off to Mexico for the presidential inauguration of the incoming President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

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Houston, currently the crush of international foodie press and cultural heavyweights, has no shortage of things for Mike and Karen to get into.

Food, folks, and fun? Houston has it covered.

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Of course the Pences don't drink alcohol so we can rule out a slurry Montrose-area or downtown bar crawl full of craft cocktails and super-obscure craft beers. The weather kinda blows right now anyway and no one wants to drink in 100 percent humidity.

For this little itinerary we have eliminated time spent in traffic because a Houston-area traffic jam is match for a vice-presidential motorcade.

The Pences are expected to land at Hobby Airport just after 4 p.m. and are slated to leave Saturday morning. There are currently no public or private events planned for the Pences so it appears that Mike and Karen have a very rare night free to themselves.

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