R&R's First Trip to Houston

Some highlights from our first trip to Houston on May 26-29th:

We arrived Thursday morning and met up with Will, Reid's friend from Seminary and now a fellow graduate student in the Philosophy program at U of H.  After eating lunch at Chipotle, we headed over for at tour of the university campus.

Here are the philosophers now! They're standing outside the philosophy building soaking it all in :)

These little guys were also soaking it but mainly the coolness of the concrete floor in this shaded area.  Not a bad idea since it was in the high 90's this day.

Of course, we had to get our picture with the Houston cougar...

Then it tried to attack Reid, and I had to save him!

It was a close one, but we made it!

Reid and I spent some time exploring and found this:

And this:

And ran into some of this:

Houston Traffic (it gets a lot worse than what you see here!)

Friday night we met up with some of the other philosophy students at U of H.  They gave Reid lots of good advice on classes and professors and preparing for the PhD.  They also spent quite a bit of time discussing topics using words I didn't quite understand. They're starting a reading group for the summer and were trying to land on a specific book. All in all, Reid feels excited to join in on the fun!

On Saturday, we spent all day apartment hunting with a wonderful Realtor recommended by Will and Jenn (our friends in the grad program at Houston).

That night we went out for some wonderful TexMex at Pappasito's and some homemade ice cream at Hank's.  We recommend the Texas Oreo (more oreo than ice cream it seemed- yum!) and Banana Pudding (tasted just like the real thing, but better!) flavors. 

We are so thankful for Will and Jenn and their generous hospitality.  Reid and I aren't sure how we would've made it to Houston without them.  We're so excited to get to be their neighbors soon, and of course hang out with their friendly dog Cutter (he'll help me through Cooper withdrawals):

We only saw a little bit of Houston, but we can't wait to see more and experience it ourselves as residents.  To top off a wonderful and productive trip, Delta offered us free travel vouchers if we took a later flight since they had overbooked ours.  $400 travel vouchers and a free meal at the airport? We'll take it!

Reid happily waiting for our later flight!