Currently, we have just arrived in Houston at NASA. We are meeting Diane Spear's parents here and spending the night with them.
I bet you're wondering what that first picture is about. Our car was broken into last night! Our hotel was in a decent area near downtown San Antonio and near the Cowboys host hotel (Tom and Thomas went to Cowboys training camp!). Our hotel also had 24 -hour security, but somehow someone broke the window and took our GPS and Tom's phone charger -- how random! He/she left cameras, a DVD player, Nintendos, etc.
So Tom spent the morning at Safelite getting a new window.
Other than that we had a good time in San Antonio. We took a ride up the Tower of the Americas (bigger than Seattle's Space Needle). Of course we visited the Alamo, and we watched an IMAX movie about the Alamo. We had a great dinner at the Salt Grass Steakhouse and took a boat ride along the river, which is the centerpiece of downtown San Antonio.
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We spent about a day in California......Hollywood, Pacific Ocean, Angels-Rangers game. Great weather on the coast but very hot (106) in the desert. The beaches are really pretty but extremely crowded. Hayley and Hannah think they want to live there.
Grand Canyon is awesome. You can't imagine how enormous it is. You have to see it. We hiked about 1.5 miles down into the Canyon and had lunch before hiking back up. We took in a beautiful sunset over the Canyon before the rain started. We haven't had a lot of rain on the trip-- just one terrible storm in Wisconsin and a few shorter storms here and there.
In Santa Fe, New Mexico, we toured the cute little downtown. We went to the Loretto Chapel that the Hamptons told us about. The chapel
contains a mysterious and beautiful spiral staircase that has no support system yet remains firmly in place. We went a little outside town to the ancient Indian cliff dwellings. You can see Thomas and Alli climbing up into one of the dwellings. We also went to Los Alamos to learn about the making of the first atomic bomb. Very interesting!
Our last day in Colorado, we went into downtown Denver with Scott, Samantha, and the girls. You can see the picture of the kids sitting on the steps of the Colorado state capital with the "1 mile above sea level" inscription. Denver is the "Mille High City."
On Sunday in Littleton we went to church where Scott gave a great sermon on forgiveness. Then we went on a 30-mile bike ride beside the river -- all the way into Denver! It is the farthest any of us have ever ridden on a bike--except Tom, of course. It was a huge challenge for Alli, and we are so proud of her for finishing well.
We drove to Pike's Peak....a long way up....and enjoyed the incredible views from 14,110 feet above sea level. We drove through Garden of the Gods-- we renamed it Garden of God! Very beautiful!
We also went to WaterWorld.....the largest water park in the USA. The kids had a great time.
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