Houston, we're having a great time!

While I was in Uganda with Hald, me and Kay lived in the Wafula-family. One of the brothers lives in the US with his family, but was in Uganda for some time to do a job. So this week I've been in Houston to visit him and his family, his wife Sarah and their daughter Daniella.

It's been a great week with Warm weather, some shopping, relaxing and a trip to NASA and to a island in the Mexican gulf called Galveston. The three first days I was totally on my own since Sarah and Daniella were on a holiday to Milwaukee and Jimmy was busy reading for his exam. So the first day I just walked around here in the neighborhood and the next day I took a trip to downtown and to a shopping center. Downtown was not much to write home about, so when I found out that there was no shopping center downtown I found a bus and found a really big one so I got to do some shopping this day and the next. Now it can look like I shopped for two whole days, but take it easy. I didn't. Something was wrong with Jimmy's land-line, so the Internet at home didn't work. So actually my first mission on that Wednesday was to find a Internet-café or a place with wireless. And not surprisingly I found a Starbucks not far from where I stayed:) So everyday, either before doing anything or after doing something I went there to surf.

On Saturday evening we went to a service at Lakewood Church, the biggest church in the US! And it was Huge! I loved the worship there, but I didn't get much of the message in the speech because I had a terrible headache.

Monday was Memorial Day, and therefore a public holiday. So we went to NASA visitor center! It was really interesting to see the different outfits that the astronauts use, to see how a Space-ship looks like inside and the food they eat while their in space. We also took a tour to Johnson Space Center where they actually train astronauts and testing things that are going out to ISS.

 

When we were finished there we went to Galveston, a big island in the Mexican gulf. The beaches were packed with people and the water was so warm! But the beach it self was not very nice. A lot of sea weed covered it, but people didn't seem to bother.