Update From Texas

Its another great day in texas, the sun is shining and we are having wonderful weather!

This week has been interesting, lindsey has been working hard and I have been filling the role of Househusband. Its been interesting, I've kind of liked it. I cook food for lindsey, I clean the house, I make sure everything is in order for when she comes home. Its really been a learning experience for me. I now know that I should always appreciate what she does for me because It will be a lot of work for her when I am working full time here in a few weeks.

I have been working a lot on my simulation engine lately, and my tan, both are going wonderfully, although my tan seems to be more white than anything else. I have been doing a lot of swimming in the pool that we have here with our apartment, and we have been using the hot tub at nights. It a nice place that we have here.

We are located just on the edge between the nice part of town and the bad part of town, so we enjoy the cheep prices that come with the bad part of town, and we also have a lot of good people that you find in the good part of town. Our apartment complex is large and has a lot of retired people, mentally challenged people, and working people. We feel safe here, its a good place to stay for a few months.

We have been riding the busses around San Antonio a lot. we are taking advantage of the month passes that we bought, and we are going to continue to buy them because of how convenient they are for us. the bus stops right in front of our complex, and it takes us to the super market or even as far as the down town river walk. A bus a block away drops me off in front of USAA, and takes me back home at night as well. and we can manage to get anywhere we want just by riding the busses.

The busses can also get us to the Zoo, we went there on Tuesday. It was a large zoo, and we both liked it a lot. There were a lot of exhibits that you could get in close to the animals, well at least the nicer ones. they didn't let anyone in with the lions or tigers or bears, oh my. but we went into a lot of aviaries and played with parrots, and had a lot of finches, crazy looking chickens like things, and a large variety of birds to be around. The zoo is also is nesting grounds for a bunch of wild herons and another swampy bird that I cant remember what kind it is. Unfortunately they like to nest by the hundreds in the tallest trees over the busiest paths. So yes we were almost pooped on because we were not paying attention. gross.

we saw little tiny antelopes, a strange zebra giraffe thing, geckoes, kangaroos, snapping turtles, sea horses, butterflies in a conservatory that you can walk through and have them land on you, ocelots, and manny other strange and slightly tamed animals.

All in all it was a great zoo to visit, and we were able to see why it is one of the best ones in the nation.

As for slightly tame animals, there are none of those living in our house, just very wild cockroaches, that seem to have some sort of sick fascination with scaring Lindsey. Needless to say, I have bought hotels for them to stay at and some spray on body wash for them that I think that they will like. Hopefully they wont stay for long.

Lots of Love

Daniel and Lindsey.

Greetings From Texas!

Well Lindsey and I have made it safely to texas, as I'm sure you guessed otherwise how would we be making a post?

we are going to break out what has been going on across several posts.

Considering we were going to be living in Texas for a few months, we decided that we needed to get used to warmer weather. So back in january, we decided to spend a week or so in the Zions National Park area getting used to being a little warm and a little hot.

We found a small Bed and Breakfast online called Amber Inn and it was just perfect, right in Rockville so we didn't have to deal with all the touristy stuff of Springdale, but close enough to Zions to get there and beat the traffic.

Nida, the owner was a taller than me Lithuanian woman who had dyed her hair bright orange and loved to talk. She was fun as she showed us the room and as we payed for our stay. It was a great Bed and Breakfast.

Speaking of breakfast, she cooked us french toast with cream cheese in-between two of the slices. It was delicious, and we ate it all.

Zions was wonderful, They are about 175% of normal for water down there so everything is very green. The green of the plants against the orange and red of the rocks is a photographers paradise. it was about 75-80 degrees, so not very hot, and we came when the park was free for the week so we saved about $50 getting in and out of the park.

The first day we decided to get the hard hike out of the way so we hiked Angels Landing. While hiking we were both were suffering from lack of air as the trail switched back on itself for what seemed an unnecessarily long number of times, fortunately the views were amazing and it gave us an excuse to stop and take "Photographs", aka breaks. Those "Photographs" prepared us for what was coming up next, a thin neck of rock that connected Scout Lookout to Angels Landing itself. The hike at this part was really enjoyable, and it was comforting to know that we had around 1,000 feet of air on either side of us to cushion our fall. Some how I did not find comfort in the cushioning or the chain that we clung to.

As I lagged behind in this part of the hike, Lindsey enjoyed her time by swinging on the chain over small breaks in the trail and hopping around on the rocks like some sort of curly haired, hatted, mountain goat. After half a mile or so of galloping around on the sheer cliff walls of Angles Landing the cute curly haired Mountain Goat made it to the top, followed shortly by her handsome rugged traveling companion. The views up and down the canyon were wonderful, and they were accented nicely by the soft breeze that was blowing.

The hike down was a lot easier than the hike up, I promise. in fact it was so easy that we both held hands and kind of jogged down the whole trail. Every now and then we passed another couple that was hiking down and they saw us and decided to join in. By the end we had about 5 couples jogging down the trail with us. Fortunately for us, cute mountain goats and rugged men are very sure of foot.

Weeping rock was next and we got dripped on a lot by the water seeping from the rock. There was a sign indicating that the water was unsafe to drink from because it was full of Giardia (sp?). So we didn't drink any, even though lindsey looked thirsty.

We took a lot of photos of this part of the trail because of how wonderful it looked up canyon right next to the Giardia infested waterfall.

The hike down was hard, we were both very tired from our excursions that day and our legs were complaining just about as loud as they could. Fortunately we were done for the day and could head back to Amber Inn.

We will try to get some photos up soon. Texas is hot and humid.