Houston

The drive seemed as if it barely happened. Auri was surprised when we were already there. We got to Houston at around 10-10:30pm and went right to where my uncle Randy Manages a Little Caesars. We drove back to his Apartment where we just kinda took it easy and passed stories (I played some songs) back and forth and I let Randy know what had been happening with the family for the past umpteen years.


The following morning we were treated to a huge breakfast of eggs, French toast, home fries, biscuits, bacon, and a glass of Orange juice. It was marvelous. Our first stop for the day was Guitar Center….I can only describe it as a Texas-sized music store. I played acoustics first, then electric guitars, followed by playing some keyboard. I could probably spend hours in that place, though I know it wasn’t as exciting for Auri so I wrapped it up. After leaving guitar center we went to pick up Gloria and Sarah. Gloria is Randy’s new wife from Argentina and Sarah is her younger sister. Sarah doesn’t speak much English, Gloria speaks a little, Uncle randy speaks Spanish pretty well and Auri and I both understand Spanish pretty well (her much better than me). It is fun to be able to listen and understand because we don’t get much opportunity to practice up in Vermont. After we picked them up we headed off for the NASA space center. This…..was…..awesome…….not only is it NASA…the place where they like talk to spaceships and whatnot…but…they have themes for their exhibits/museums….this year’s theme……STAR WARS(and the other films of George Lucas….yeah..this made my day. The fact that they had many original props from the productions from Star wars including Luke Skywalker’s Light saber, they had Bail Organa’s entire speeder as well as the cockpit of General Grievous’ Ship. They had Indiana Jones’ Harley, a car from American graffiti, and the wand from Willow. Oh yeah…did I mention there were space ships? Like….real ones? Yeah….I <3 spaceships. Randy brought us to a little mexican place called "Mexico Deli" All portions were massive and delicious. We were all stuffed by the time we had to go and pick up Gloria and Sara(they were at rehearsal). On the way home uncle randy grabbed a bottle of Argentinian Melbec (a delicious slightly acidic red wine). We just sat around and shared pictures and talked for the rest of the evening.
This morning we woke up and I decided to try and fill in some of the gaps in my blog. A huge omelet interrupted my blogging briefly, but today we are planning on going for a bike ride to burn off some of the calories we’ve been taking in. Tonight there is a bossa nova show we’re going to that I can use for one of my reviews. Should be a good time.