Rest

Mostly, this day was spent sleeping, reading, and eating. What a wonderful day!

I'd say it was a much deserved laziness as we had quite a busy couple of days. Yesterday, after the visit in downtown Houston, we took a detour on our way to NASA. We drove to the San Jacinto Monument where once again, we paid homage to Texas history. See, this was where the Republic of Texas was won from the hands of Mexico. Sam Houston lead the Texans with the famous battlecry, "Remember the Alamo!".

NASA made our trip to Houston well worth it. We also visited the Johnson Space Center and saw huge rockets! I guess the most important take away from this visit is - the future is in space. I learned that the US has decreased the budget that goes to NASA (or it's research) from 10% to half of 1% in the last 3 decades. I also learned that there's much research, planning and preparation going on right now to put man on Mars.

Oh, we also saw the Star Wars storm troopers which to me was the highlight of the whole visit (just kidding)! But it sure was cool.

The trip back to Dallas took all of 4 hours.