Houston, Tx

May 18 Houston Tx,
Well it was another busy day of being on the road exciting... not really western Louisiana from Baton Rouge to Lake Charles was flat and boring. We got to see a flipped over semi though and I-10 heading east was diverted completely away from that section of highway. Well before going into the excitements of today, there was some stuff I missed out on from yesterday and some stuff that happened later after I posted last night. Other random news from the car would be that Sarah is suffering from mystery allergies and has been plagued with them since we started on sunday, the idea is that it monomonia.
Well lets see first while we were in New Orleans we had a man a hari-krishna give us bumper stickers, hats, and books for only 20 dollars a good deal right? I mean we got a lot of stuff to take with us for a little price. I also came into contact with one of my friend's Judy's sister, Amanda. Who is on a road trip in the opposite direction, though we did not meet up we were in contact and wished each other luck on our trips. Then headed on our way to LSU where we had oven baked pizza and attempted to dye my hair with no success. There was a lot of visiting of friends that I can't remember them all off the top of my head because it was 7-8 new people in one night, all we're very nice and welcoming. Stayed with John and Michael on the LSU campus.
For today as described earlier most of the driving in Louisiana was rather boring. Yet prior to leaving today one of the people that we stayed with John cooked us pancakes which was awesome of him to send us on our way. Then we got to Texas where it was even more exciting....there were lots of industrial parks. I also saw a football field that was for a college team and was relatively equal in size to that stadium for App. State. Then we arrived at my birth city Houston, megan had some issues with the gps telling her to keep going left. (basically, GPS is satan and people just need to look up where they are going first... or ask people for directions). Then we tried to find an art place in downtown Houston or more towards the ghetto area, excuse me if that offends anyone. Rick Lowe (Sp) a few years back bought some of the houses in the area that had been run down to try and attempt to restore them. Around 10 and then allowed artists to come in and paint the house and set it up the way they wanted to show it off to restore the area to some of its more community setting. Though we drove around for a little while we were unable to find it. So instead we drove downtown to the cathedral that my father said "doesn't exist". We found two actually one older one and a brand new one built in 2008. The building is beautiful. Jenn and I took a great many of pictures of the Cathedral, aka got a lot of pictures with Jesus after which we decided to go meet up with Jenn's old friend Mark, who allowed us to use his pool and was kind enough to lodge us for the night. So since getting here it was catching up with old friends, going out to dinner, and driving by nasa and getting some pictures. That is it for the day and the night is still left, you will here about the night tomorrow from Amarillo Tx. Well keeping you all posted and knowing that we are safe. (and well)
~shinners