Awesome Austin

Alright, so this one goes out to any space geeks among you: Guess what we saw two days ago in Houston?

Rockets, Apollo Mission control rooms and bits and pieces of the current space station with training astronauts on it. We did a tour of NASA and saw all this neat stuff and were told cool stories and facts by Joe and Brian at NASA. I almost skipped out on this one but am very glad I didn't. Coolest fact of the day: all the Apollo missions were controlled on less memory space than there is in a modern cell phone or mp3 player. What? Crazy....

We latter ate delicious curry and went out with Kim and Doug to her favorite bar, McGonigel's Mucky Duck, to catch the Belleville Outfit. We then got a drive to Austin from Kim, our fairy-bike-mother from Houston...

After we arrived last week, she invited us to stay an extra day. She offered to take Friday off to come drive us to Austin and take the opportunity to visit friends in the area over this week end. We love Kim and will miss her tons!!!!

So, we arrived at DeWayne Wilson's house. He lives here in Austin with his wife Deana and their daughter April. They have a beautiful, beautiful home and two beautiful dogs in the north end of Austin. They also cooked us a great (gluten free!) dinner of white bean and chicken chili with corn bread and last night we all watched a sweet movie in their home theater system. DeWayne and his family have been awesome and have showed us all around Austin including different cool neighborhoods, awesome mountains and running trails as well as some fantastic restaurants. The weather is amazing and sunny and Mare and I look forward to riding on through West Texas in a couple of days... Trish plans to fly down to Mexico on Tuesday and Elissar is flying back to Canada at the end of the week...

We will be checking out Austin's music scene tonight and will report back with details...