Our First Month in a Foreign Country

Houston is named after this guy: Sam Houston

Well Daniel and I have been in Houston, Texas for a month now!

Things are definitely different here than they are in Utah and especially Logan, Utah.  For example, the population of Houston is 2.1 million people, the population of Utah: 2,817,222.  There are about as many people living around us in an hour radius as live in the whole state we came from.  There are people everywhere at all times of the day and night! 

The pros of living in Houston:
The mall in our neighborhood has over 70 stores...goodbye Cache Valley Mall!  Hello many many clothing options!

We live in the restaurant district of North West Houston and the restaurants are open after 9pm!  No need to go to Rancheritos for a late night snack, we can pick from much nicer (although maybe not as tasty) food joints.

Our apartment complex has a pool and work out room, and it is hot enough to use the pool without freezing. 

We are just far away from downtown that we are in the suburbs, we live about the distance from downtown as Orem to Salt Lake City.

It is so pretty and green here!  The flowers here are big and pretty and the trees and tall and green.  When we walk outside it sounds like we are living in a rainforest with all the birds and insect sounds.  They have really pretty birds here, we have already seen a Cardinal, Blue Jay, and Herron.

Houston isn't a 'TEXAS' as pretty much the rest of the state, a lot of the people living here have moved here from somewhere else.

The cons of living in Houston:

Want to go on a walk?  Sorry, no can do, this is Houston there are hardly any sidewalks here!  You must get in your huge gas guzzler and drive to a park or YMCA.  (Although gas is cheaper here since we live in oil country).

You don't want to go outside on a walk anyway, it is hot, hot, hot!!!  Just walking outside to get the mail will get me sweaty enough that I stick to anything I touch. 

We live 1500 miles away from our hometowns.  We like living out and on our own, but the fastest we can ever get home is a 2 1/2 hour flight plus the time it takes to get to the airport and go through security.

Cockroaches...that's all I'm going to say about that one...

All in all though, I am enjoying Houston!  We have no reason to be bored here and there are so many free and fun things to do!  We also live within a reasonable distance from Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, I don't foresee us being bored on Friday nights and Saturdays anytime soon!