Over ice cream the other night celebrating our one-month of marriage, Cameron and I decided we should have 1 date night a week (with a budget) and we can take turns planning it out. (Actually, this wasn't my idea. I stole it from someone and now I can't even remember who it was...sorry if it was you!)
So, since our days have been pretty open and our nights this week are dwindling, Cameron woke me up yesterday with a brilliant idea: date DAY! He planned the entire day with fun things for us to do together, but wouldn't tell me what we were doing until we got to each place.
Destination #1 Houston Aquarium!
Looking at each different type of fish and lizard and bird and snake, we were reminded of the Lord's creativity in designing each one of them. They are all so intricately designed, just like us! After walking through the exhibits, we rode the ferris wheel and had a great view of our new city's downtown area.
Destination #2 The Heritage Society Museum
Here we watched a 12 minute VHS about the history of Houston. Talk about hi-def!
Destination #3 Houston Public Library
Here we searched for our Adventures in Odyssey cd's with no luck. And...add another "first" to our list...Cameron got his first ever, very own... LIBRARY CARD! Only in Houston they're called "PowerCards".
He's excited!
Destination #4 Hub Cap Grill
Supposedly the best burgers in the city! We made a lunch stop here to check it out for ourselves.
The absolutely were! And the drinks are all in bottles or cans...so naturally I got a bottle of root beer and Cameron got his Dr. Pepper. (Although in the picture he had to pose with my root beer because by the time our burgers came, his dp was long gone.)
Destination # 5
For destination #5, we got high. I mean realllyyyyy high.
High enough to see all of downtown Houston from the tallest building in the city. We went up to the 60th story of the JP Morgan/Chase Tower: the tallest 5-sided building in the world. This made our ferris wheel view seem so...boring. (Although we still liked it and I even got a little scared.)
So there you have it. Our date day summed up: a walking tour of downtown Houston. They say Houston summers are hotter than Dallas and I used to not really believe them, but wow. It is every bit true. The humidity makes it feel like a million degrees and rising. But we did get some cloud coverage there for a while and we had fun with it! On the way home, Cameron said he had one more thing planned. As he turned into the Galleria parking lot, I just knew I had guessed it. Cheesecake Factory...duh.
Until we walked into the Apple Store and he asked if I wanted a new macbook. So long 1995 Dell laptop. You've been good to me.
So that's why I didn't blog about our day last night. I was too busy getting acquainted with this thing.
We might have gone over the date budget...just a little.
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