Houston, we have a problem!

Sorry we haven't posted in a while, but I'll do my best to catch you up in the next few posts. First, Stefan recently had a week without any classes- not to be mistaken for a week off- and we decided to take a trip to Houston. We booked a downtown hotel and set out on our trip. As we're about to arrive in Houston Stefan gets a call from a number he doesn't know. He figured it was someone on the Air Force Base and that it might be important. His flight commander informed him that he needed to drink some fluids and come to base for his random drug test. Stefan informed him that we were in Houston and wouldn't be back until the next day. He told Stefan he should report in at 8am the next day. This lead to many other issues.

Because Stefan didn't technically have the day off (just no scheduled classes) he was supposed to sign out in a book saying where he was going to be, if he was leaving. He forgot to do this and so we couldn't really make a stink about them making us drive back. Instead of turning around then, we decided to at least enjoy a little bit of Houston before driving home that night. First, we went to the Houston Space Center and took a tour of the facilities. The tour was three hours! We learned a lot and saw a lot, but by the end we were getting pretty hungry. So, we headed to a yummy seafood restaurant for a late lunch. After lunch, we headed to the hotel to cancel our reservation as we weren't going to stay the night any more. Then, we parked and wandered around downtown Houston until the baseball game!

Stefan was so excited to go to a baseball game. It was the second game of the season and the Astros were playing the Cubs. I couldn't tell if he was more excited about being at the game or cheering against the Cubs :) It was a great game and I decided to drive us home so that Stefan could get some sleep before having to be up and at work early in the morning. The drive was uneventful- we made good time without any tickets.

The next day, Stefan went in for his meeting at 8am and then waited on base for two hours to get called for his drug test. He never even got called!!!! I was hoping he would so that it wouldn't have made us coming home so irrelevant. All in all, Houston was nice but we'll probably need to go back to see more of the city the next time around!