Hello to all of our new and continuing members.

In the past month from April 15^th, to the present, my tour guides and I have had the pleasure to conduct tours for hundreds of people to and of:

1. Customized City Tour B
2. Customized City Tour A + Space Center Houston
3. City Tour A2
4. City Tour C twice
5. City Tour D
6. Haunted Tour Y
7. Customized Tunnel Tour
8. Tunnel Tour A1
9. Tunnel Tour B2
10. Tunnel Tour B3
11. Texas Medical Center Walking Tour B2.5
12. Texas Medical Center Walking Tour B3.5

It is always good to keep busy.

In the last blog, I emphasized that May is a popular month for different ethnic groups and we give 10% discounts for taking these ethnic tours.  May is identified as both Asian Pacific Heritage Month and Jewish-American Heritage Month and has the Hispanic holiday of Cinco de Mayo.  I hope that all of you have been eating and drinking well as you commemorate these events.

I forgot to mention Mother’s Day.  If any of you would like to accompany your mother on a Garden Tour, she can go for ½ price only in the month of May.  That is 50% off.  Furthermore, if you can correctly answer the next 5 questions, she can go for FREE!  What a deal!

If you answer any of the questions below correctly, take off another 10% of the cost of your mother’s tour in the month of May.  In other words, in May for a Garden Tour that you accompany your mother, her cost will be 50%.  Answer 1 question correctly, and her cost will be 40%.  Answer 2 questions correctly, and her cost will be 30%, and so on.  All of the questions below focus on Mother’s Day in the United States.  Other countries may have different traditions.

1. What was the first year of the first modern day Mother’s Day celebrated?
2. Who was the prime mover to create Mother’s Day?
3. What was the first state to recognize Mother’s Day as a holiday?
4. In what year did the United States as a nation recognize Mother’s Day as a national holiday?
5. What flower is associated with Mother’s Day?

Good luck.

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See you on a tour.

Sincerely,

Keith Rosen
Houston Historical Tours
P. O. Box 262404
Houston, Texas 77207-2404
(713) 392-0867
(713) 643-4086 Fax
houstonhistory@aol.com
www.houstonhistoricaltours.com