January 21 - Houston, Texas

Visited with family Ike and Barbara in Houston

Enjoyed lunch, the Museum of Fine Arts, coffee, and the

Rothko Chapel with them 

Rose at Space Center Houston

Rose at Museum of Natural Science

Gold wall at Museum of NS

Rose and Jenn in gold room 

Trolls 3 movie outing the day it was in the 30s

Note that seats didn’t recline unlike our theater 

in little Soldotna 

Museum of Fine Arts

Outside Rothko Chapel

Rose at Kemah Boardwalk 

She rode this at least 10 times. Well maybe 20.

Kemah Boardwalk 

More SC pictures 

Historic Mission Control Center 

With cigarettes, cigars, coffee mugs, and old style phones 

Ken and Jenn in front of Mission Control

Tour of Astronaut Training Facility

Saturn V

The moment when Jenn appreciated

the camper bed.

Just one of the areas inside the Space Center.

We were there all day 10-5.

29th Annual Houston National Invitational

Gymnastics meet. We HAD to go. It was only 8 minutes 

from our campground. Well, if roads weren’t so confusing. 

Maybe 20 with GPS reroutings. 

Amy and Jenn - reunited after high school. It’s 

been 38 years! ❤️

Ken, Jenn, Amy and Darin 

It’s been a great week in Houston. Our campground is well situated at 10 minutes to downtown in southwest Houston. We were warned that we would have no campground water for 2 days due to the Arctic storm that passed through earlier in the week. 20s at night. Ken filled up our fresh water tank so we were ok except for one day when it froze. Stores and campgrounds, including ours, ran out of propane but we were fully stocked. Yay.

One of the highlights this week was spending time with Ike and Barbara. We had a lovely visit. And we are hoping to see them again at our Family Reunion in June (in Pennsylvania). They have lived in Houston for a long time and were great tour guides. The food here is very good and that is a reputation this number 3 city in population gets. Traffic started out quite light but that was earlier in the week when schools were closed. It has picked up quite a bit although they don’t drive as fast as in Phoenix. 

The Space Center was roughly 35 minutes from our campground and we spent all day there and did some add on tours like the Mission Control Center and the Astronaut Training Facility. Ken told Rose that our next trip would be to Mars so living in a camper is the training for space. She didn’t fall for that. She also wasn’t interested in space living after she learned what their water source was in the International Space Station. Clearly that presentation wasn’t intended to recruit astronauts.

After church today at Good Hope Missionary Baptist we visited my friend Amy from high school. She and her husband  live in the Woodlands, roughly an hour from our campground. We had a lovely dinner in their home and Rose enjoyed helping Amy cook. She also enjoyed playing with Belle, their black lab. 

Tonight is our last night in Texas and then we drive through Louisiana to Mississippi where we will spend 4 nights in Picayune. We will be an hour from New Orleans so will spend some time there. I saw “hard freeze” again in the forecast so I need to warn Ken. 

Thank you for the prayers for safety, health and sanity. ❤️ Amen.