January 30 - Houston Temple

Today we went with Mandy to church.  She has 1:00pm church (just like we do).  I'm not loving that time of church so far.  But, I have to admit, it was nice to have a little extra time to sleep in and get ready while we were visiting with her and on vacation.

After church we were all starving - we put in a chicken pot pie that we got at Costco the day before and while it was cooking we ran over to the Houston Texas Temple to take the picture of the day.

It's a beautiful temple and the grounds (as always with any temple) were beautiful and immaculate.

Thanks so much Nichol's!!  We had a FABULOUS time.  It was so much fun to come for a visit.  You made it so nice, easy, relaxing and FUN!!  Hope to do lots more of these when you are in Nevada.  Love you so much :)

January 28 - JP Morgan Chase Tower Observatory

Wow!! was all I could say when I stepped out on the 60th floor of the JP Morgan Chase Tower Observatory.  We were so high up that we could see that the earth is in fact round!!  It was pretty awe striking and felt a little dizzying.  

JPMorgan Chase Tower offers the highest public view of Houston from the Sky Lobby on the 60^th floor. This floor serves as an observation floor as well as a transfer point to shuttle tenants to floors 49-59 and 61-75. The Sky Lobby is open to the public.
JPMorgan Chase Tower is also connected to Houston's downtown tunnel system. This system forms a net- work of subterranean, climate-controlled, pedestrian walkways that link twenty-five full city blocks.


The tunnel system was AWESOME.  It was hard to choose between the two of them for the picture of the day, but the observatory won out :D

January 27 - Captain Nichol

Today we arrived in Houston around 12:00 noon. The whole Nichol family picked us up at the airport. Then took us straight to lunch. We ate at a place I've never even seen before.  It was delicious and reminded me of Kneader's. I had a yummy sandwich and delicious soup. The kids seemed older to me this time. How did that happen?  We just saw them at Thanksgiving time. We only had a few more hours and then Steve was off on a 4-day trip. Which we quickly found out that he just HATES!!  The 4-day ones are hard.  He likes 2-day trips much better.

So. . .today the picture had to be of Steve. So we could remember him while he was gone :) and I told him that was going to be my picture today.

So here he is, Captain Steve Nichol on his way to work.