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Checkin to Starbucks Reserve Bar
Getting a custom cup of Ethiopian coffee. -
Checkin to Thai Kitchen
Lunch with my younger brother. -
by JamesThe sun’s coming up in Austin.
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Driving from Houston to Austin and it rained so hard on 290 and was almost foggy, all you could see was gray. Never wanted to be on a train more in my life. Luckily, 15 minutes and we were through the worst of it.
Taking a break at Starbucks in Giddins and the dropped in temperature from 24 to 10C. Burrr 🥶 -
Checkin to Starbucks
Taking a break on the way to Austin/San Marcos. -
Checkin to Buc-ee's
The BEST conbini in the world. -
Checkin to Children's Museum of Houston
Spending the day with grandma and the fam learning about things. -
The Week #136
- We traveled to Texas. This was Leo's first flight and his first time to America. It's also my first time visiting the US in 6 years, since we moved back to Japan. Leo did good on the flight. When the flight attendant came about, Leo was able to say he wanted chicken. Ordering stuff as a kid can be scary and he did great.
- It's been good coming back and visiting America. I missed seeing such a large skies like you see in Texas. Going outside this time of year is great: it's about 23 during the day and there's no mosquitos. This same area during summer though is not as great as it's 40+ and you get eaten alive by the mossies.
Water front views
We've been able to introduce Leo to all of his cousins and all of his uncles . Mission accomplished. - Driving everywhere is a drag, though. Not because I'm not a fan of driving, but just how inefficient (resources and time). i.e. getting everybody loaded up into the car just to literally drive across the street because there's no other way.
- Visiting Space Center Houston with Leo was a lot of fun. We did the red tour, which takes you to the ISS training facility and to rocket park where they have a Saturn V rocket. The other tour takes you to Mission Control and rocket park and way back they were a single 3-stop tour.
Saturn V Rocket
Over the years I've done this tour at least a half-dozen times. As I've gotten older visiting the campus inspires me. There's just something about visiting the inside of the large campus, and people doing research, each advancing human knowledge in their own respective fields that is inspiring. I imagine there's an alternate timeline where I also worked inside those buildings. - Afterwards we visited my wife's old workplace and Leo got to meet Akihiko Hoshide, one of the Japanese astronauts. Leo was happy to meet him because he's seen him on TV in Pitogora Switch (youtube). I was surprised that Leo didn't get shy and try to hide behind me. In fact he (Leo) talked quite a bit, mostly about Mario though.
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Checkin to NASA JSC Building 9 - SVMF
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Checkin to Pearson Park
Playing at the park waiting for space center to open.
