We're not in Oklahoma, nor Louisiana!

So I guess that means we're in Texas. Houston, TX to be exact. We spent the day yesterday walking around Houston and discovered one of the neatest things about the city. The city is full of air conditioned pedestrian tunnels. And these tunnels are kept exceptionally clean. You'd never know you were walking around the city. It's like walking through a corridor in a say a hospital. It's clean, safe, and lots of people are bustling to get around.

The tunnels connect major landmarks in and around downtown and are used by 130,000 people every day to get to where they need to be. In fact, most of the coffee shops, light restaurants and convenience stores are all located underground. It looks to me that each landmark, (many of them being high-rise corporate office towers) are responsible for their own section of the tunnel.

We had a blast at the Downtown Aquarium. The exhibits were fantastic and all looked relatively new. We saw some baby alligators, and lots of Angel fish and Tangs. The coral reef, my personal favorite, was great. We sat and watched the tiny little ecosystem for quite a few minutes.

Next up is Galveston, and probably some swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jonathan & Christina

P.S. We had some steaks last night, they were pretty darn good. They'll serve you one as rare as you want down here. Medium rare was fine enough for us!