Panama Update #55
September 28, 2008
This weekend we are taking it easy and not planning any special activities. We are leaving town on Thursday (Oct. 2) for a week. I go to Miami for 3 days and then meet Nikki in Houston. She goes directly to Houston for a Geology convention. She is busy (as usual) preparing for her two presentations at the conference. We have a reservation in Houston at a hotel that is right on the light rail line. From researching it on the web, they have a light rail line in the central corridor of downtown Houston that starts at the Astrodome on one end of town, goes through the medical district, the museum district, the business district and then ends up at the convention center where Nikki's conference is. We are staying in the medical district which is about a 20 minute train ride to the convention center. It is cheaper to stay in that area than within walking distance of the convention center. Nikki will be there for 8 nights and I will join her there for 4 nights. While she is at the convention I think there will be a lot of activities. It looks like there is a lot of museums, college campuses, and a zoo right off the light rail line. I think it will be a nice break from Panama.
We are still waiting to see if and when the apartment we found will be available. The person who is moving out is waiting to hear from his potential new landlord and until that is settled, we don't know what will happen. We walked over to visit our potential landlord yesterday to let him know we are still interested if the guy moving out can work things out.
We don't have any special plans for the holidays. The only thing we are thinking about is inviting a couple people over Monday night for some borscht and apples and honey.
