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Mulva, The Cool Bus
Hi Everybody! My name is Mulva and I was born in 1994 in Nashville, TN! In my early years, I was seen driving Miley Cyrus to/from school…that is, before she was on the Disney Channel and started being famous. In 2006, I finally made the journey, the Lone Star State, TEXAS! I operated as a school bus transporting the youth of America to/from school Monday – Fridays. In 2014, I was sold at auction where my new owners painted me red, white and blue and parked in front of Reliant Stadium on Sundays in the Fall. We would cheer on the Houston Texans together as I was their new Tailgate Party Bus! However, that would only last one year as the following Fall of 2015; I would find a new owner and never look back!
Fun Facts: My dad was the bus from the movie Speed and my mom was the school bus in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Lance, Ambassador of Fun
Lance once took a lie detector test. The machine confessed everything. Lance once donated blood to a man. He’s known as Super Man. Lance does his crosswords in pen. Lance’s first job was as a paperboy. There were no survivors. Lance once caught a cold. Then he killed it. When Lance wants an egg, he cracks open a chicken. Lance knows how much wood the woodchuck can chuck. Lance once beat Guitar Hero on Expert, using an air guitar. Some magicians can walk on water; Lance can swim through land. Lance can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves. People call 9-1-1. 9-1-1 calls Lance. Lance sleeps with a pillow under his gun. A cobra bit lance and after five days of excruciating pain…the cobra died. Lance is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs. Lance doesn’t dial the wrong number. You answered the wrong phone. Lance knows Victoria’s Secret. Lance doesn’t breathe air. He holds air hostage. Lance can kill two stones with one bird. Lance doesn’t sleep; he waits.
History of The Cool Bus
I first heard about the party bus concept in my first year living in Houston in 2007. I thought it was such a fun idea to have a party on wheels! One of my coworkers had a buddy who started his own party bus company in another city, so I gave him a shout to discuss his business. I immediately fell in love with the idea and told myself that I would, one day, have my own party bus company.
Well, the years went on, life got in the way and I still hadn’t achieved my goal. In May 2013, I was in San Diego, CA, for a friend’s wedding and they had booked a party bus to take their guests to/from various locations. I wound up chatting with the driver throughout the night and as we traveled from place to place, the passion that I once had back in 2007 for starting my own party bus company found new life.
We set up a call a week later and we talked, in detail, about how he got started and some of the speed bumps he ran into along the way. After 2-3 more calls like this, and after he answered the laundry list of questions that I had for him, I decided that I wanted to get off my butt and move forward with this endeavor!
I established my LLC in June 2013. The next 2 years would be spent creating business plans, logos, bus designs, attending small business workshops, networking events, and visiting with other small business owners to learn about their successes and failures and hopefully get some advice from experienced entrepreneurs.
All this hard work would lead to that fateful day when I was driving through Humble, TX in October 2015. The bus was spotted in front of a commercial building with a “FOR SALE” sign taped to it. The bus was covered in red, white and blue paint and Texans logos as it was previously used as a Houston Texans Tailgate Party Bus.
I laid eyes on the bus for the first time. A few weeks of meetings, inspections and negotiations would go by before arriving at the day when the bus would officially become the property of Cool Bus Houston!
The first Cool Bus was purchased on November 11, 2015.
Multiple repairs and maintenance took place over the next few months to get the bus ready to become Houston’s best party on wheels. Before the fun could begin, the electrical system, suspension, brakes and fuel pumps (aka the boring stuff) would all get worked on.
Finally, in late February 2016, The Cool Bus would start to become the beautiful specimen of a party bus that you see today, with new upholstery, interior LED lighting, Bluetooth radio, air conditioning and handrails. A few custom items were made specially just for The Cool Bus and had to be fabricated from scratch, including an ice chest/trashcan compartment onboard and a custom frame on the back of the bus that house the generators that power the all-important A/C. Once we finished the interior, the final steps were decking The Cool Bus exterior out with a custom paint job in its signature black and neon green. And with that, The Cool Bus was officially ready to roll.
Phone: (713) 805-2690
Email: info@coolbushouston.com
Areas We Visit: Greater Houston and surrounding areas including, but not limited to Cypress, Katy, The Woodlands, Sugar Land, Galveston, Conroe & College Station
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