We arrived in Texas today as scheduled, around 10:30 AM. Carol and I hadn't eaten much since leaving at 5:30 AM and apparently Continental decided that as of March 1st, they're no longer offering complimentary pretzels/peanuts/cookies. You get a drink for free, the rest you have to buy. So shortly after landing and finding our way out of the parking ramp Carol's sister, Katie, had parked in, we went to a Whattaburger (spelling?). The food was pretty good, though that might have been a direct result of us being so hungry.
After eating, we headed to Katie's house and I got the tour. It's a nice place. The kitchen is pretty cool and we have our own bathroom, which is always nice. After getting situated, we went for a walk around one of the two "lakes" in the housing development, but I would have called them ponds. The walk was only about 35 minutes, but I've already got some red showing around my neck at the shirt line.
Walmart was the next place on the list to go so Carol and I would have some choice items to eat, for filling in the unscheduled gaps. After that we killed some time until Katie's husband Scott came home and we went to the Rocket's game. Now I have to be totally honest. When I heard we were going to this game, I was thinking it was along the lines of the Erie Bayhawks, you know, a minor league team or whatever. It wasn't until we go there and I noticed the Houston Rockets NBA World Champions banners that I found out they were an actual NBA team. I mean, they played against a team called the Bobcats, what kind of NBA name is that? I guess the NBA has changed a lot since NBA 2K, or NBA Jam, my only real forms of intel on the matter.
I know that I had mentioned that I would like to post some pictures or at least one each day on here, but that doesn't seem like it's the best plan for most of the nights here. I think there are going to be several times when we get home late, like tonight, where it would just be more annoying to set up the camera, find a good picture, and post it up and still write a post. So I'm going to do this instead, post at the end of the night, like I have been doing on here for the last 2 weeks, and tomorrow morning/afternoon, before things get started, I'll post a series of pictures. We took a lot of them, and I think we're going to shoot for about that amount each day, so everything will be well documented. Anyway, that's enough of this long-winded business. Later.
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