HEY!!! Guess what?!?! I am in HOUSTON TEXAS! Yep, thats right, as I type! Today is Tuesday. I'll try to tell you what all I have done so far. Ok so Friday morning I had my alarm set for 9:15 but I woke up on my own at 8:15. So I went ahead and got up and got things together for my trip! At 9:45 mom & I left for the airport. We got some breakfast first and then were on our way to McGhee Tyson. Mom helped me get to the floor I needed to be on and then I told her to go ahead and go on so I could go sit in my gate area. So she watched me go through security and until I disappeared around the corner. I went up to Gate 11 and sat for an hour & half lol. I studied some and talked to Marci on the phone and then finally my plane came! I was so nervous I thought I was gonna throw up wiating on it. But once I got on the plane I was fine. Take off was really cool....and smoothe, and when we were driving down teh runway a dragonfly was flying beside us next to my window- I thought that was thecoolest thing ever. Flying was amazing. Being in the clouds was so awesome and beautiful. I loved everything about being in the sky. The flight was over in no time. It went by SOOO fast! I was in Houston before I knew it. The Houston airport was ENORMOUS!! I found myway down to the luggage area and got my bags and met Kristi. I gave her card & gift to her (it was a tall candle that smells like pumpkin spice). Her & I had a lil trouble gettign outof there and I left one of mybags on one side of the airport and didnt realize it until we were leaving haha. So that was stressful. But Kristi was optimistic as EVER. :) Um, we left the airport and talked and then she took me to a mexican fast food place like taco bell but better...I think maybe called "Taco Cabana" or something..not sure. It was good. Then we went to her house and I got settled down and got reacquainted with her husband Hernan and her kids: JohnCarl who is 15, Juliana who is 12 and Nicole who is 5. They all made me feel very welcomeand comfortable instantly. After that Kristi took me to all the apts. I lived in as a baby with Dad & mom & Jimmy. I got out and took pics of all of them (the exact apt we lived in) and also the playground that is special to me on one of them. She also showed me the house that she lived in while we lived here. Kristi was 14 when I was born. Umm..after Kristi looked at some of mypictures and we dug througha box of all of her old pictures (had my dad in them as well as her dad who also passed away of lung cancer just barely over a month before my Dad did). So that was too cool that we got to see those pics. She also had pics of me when I was a baby living here in Texas. :) aww. After that I went with her to run some errands for her kids and then we came back here & I let her hear Eternal Visions "Knowing You'll Be There" and we ended up standingin her kitchen crying, hugging, and talking for hours until 1 am. It was nice. We went to bed after that. Saturday I woke up at 10:15 and got ready and Kristi, Juliana, Nicole and I went to downtown Houston toshow me around. We went to this cool waterwall thing. Its a big HUGE marble wall with waterfalls splashingdown around the whole thing. It was great. Sowe took pictures and then we went to to ChicFilA to eat and then went to some shopping center in some place I think she said was called "The Villiage". After that we went back to her house for a lilwhile until we got ready to go to a place called Kemah. Its a neat place. It kind of reminds me of Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach except smaller but its a boardwalk type thing right on the water and has an amusement park. Juli & me & her friend Raquel rode the Pharaohs Fury and Kristitook Nicole to ride a kiddie ride. We walked around and saw sting rays and played games and then we left. It was a cool place...real pretty when it got dark and was all lit up. Kristi thentook us to some place where they sell weird food like corn in a cup, icies, and hot cheetohs drenched with melted cheese. I didnt get anything except a coke though. I studied that night and then called my mom and ate a hotdog. Then bedtime about 11:30. Sunday we got up and went to thechurch that Kristi & her family attends. It was great...it was so much like Daddy's church (in the way they worshipped) but it was so much more modern. They sang contemporary upbeat worship songs witha live praise band where as Daddy's chruch sang old hymns and had a choir...but I like either way...I'm down with the old-fashioned OR the new! :) Church lasted like 2 hours (also like Daddys church) and then we went back to Kris's house and she fixed us some meatloaf, peas, yam and something else. I have a bad memory. We ate and then Kristi I got into a very emotional discussion about LOTS of things...about God, LIFE, burdons, family and everything ~you nameit lol. But it was GREAT. I opened up to her a little...but not as much as I wanted to. I felt like spilling my whole life into her lap b/c she is such a beautiful person. She is compassionate, caring, understanding, nurturing, spiritual...she is an awesome person...truly sent to me from God. Butstill..I just kinda said a little bit here & there about different things I NEEDED to talk about. I know I have so many friends and familythat would sit there & listen to me if I asked them...but the fact that she cared enough to ASK ME and cared enough to listen and respond meant so much. And she was SO sincere and delicate. I needed to talk to her almost as much I need to breathe. So I did...a little. But we talked the whole time after church until time for her to be there again at 5:30 for choir practice. I went later with Hernan & the kids for just church. The worship was awesome again. Kristi took me down to the altar to pray and hold hands and praise and sing like I used to do at Daddys church with him & Mary. Practically the whole church was down there. It was cool...brought back lots of good memories with Daddy for me. After church we came home and had chocolate pie and Kristi and I chatted some more until bedtime. Yesterday was Monday. She had to start her new job yesterday so I slept in until 10 and got up and studied until 1:30 and then talked to mom on the phone and got onine for a while. Kristi didnt get home til almost 7 or so last night- boo. :( She made tacos for supper- they were good, I only had 2 though. Today is Tuesday...I woke up this morning before Kristi went to work b/c I had a tummyache but she gave me some tums and it made it all better and so I went back to sleep until almost 10. Tonight is the Crytal Lewis concert Kristi & I are going to!!! YAYYY!!!!! Ok- well Iguesss that'sa ll I have for now. I wish I wasnt going back to Knoxville in 3 days. :( That makes me so sad! I am loving it here...especially beig with "my family". They are great! Kristi even said seh wished I could stay longer...I really REALLY really wish I could. If I didnt have a job to go back to, I would! lol. OH well. I am blessed just to have had the time I have so far. I dunno if I'll write again or not....we shall see. Byefor now!!