Texas

I spent the past week in Texas with two co-workers. We visited nine housing authorities across the state and I'm extremely tired today as a result. But somehow I'm going to drag myself out the door back to the airport and attempt to track my lost luggage down. I also need to get out and get a 13 mile run in this afternoon. After spending the past week in 100+ weather, the 80 degree weather in DC feels amazing. The cooler weather means I can pretty much head out for a run anytime the urge strikes. Hopefully it will soon. But I have a feeling my couch is going to win for most of today.

One day this week I went for a 5 mile run at noon and it was 102 degrees outside. Then my co-worker and I walked 3 miles from the restaurant to downtown to do a little exploring. After that, I got a little heat sick and took it easy the rest of the week. Here's me with a rose a restaurant gave me and my heat stroke look:

While in Houston I was able to catch up with one of my BFFs for dinner. Megan won another jury trial that day (in traffic court, but still! very exciting!!) so we had some delicious greek food to celebrate and then stopped by the new house she just bought with her husband.

One of the places we went in Texas was Galveston. It was hit by a hurricane a few years ago and you can definitely still see a lot of the destruction there (although not in the picture below). The Texas coastline is quite different from the areas of the gulf I grew up going to...

Unfortunately, I'm on the road again next week (to North Carolina) so my running will suffer a little. But, hopefully this is it with the travel for a while.