22/01/2016 Friday
A quiet day in the office. We got away on Friday afternoon to pick up a car near the airport so we now have wheels. The car is a Chevrolet Cruz compact car. Typical modern car but automatic which is a bit of a change. Having a left-hand drive car make getting used to driving on the right a bit more straightforward. On the way back to our apartment we immediately got into a traffic jam on the free-way so the automatic transmission came into its own.
23/01/2016 Saturday
We took off early to HEB for our first major shop for food and some household equipment. In the afternoon we went to Best Buy to purchase a TV and a Satnav for the car. I managed to get $50 off the TV so $150 ($105) for a 32 inch full HD TV seemed pretty good.
A couple of days ago Yvonne discovered the Yarn Barn about six minutes walk from our apartment. So a quick trip there late afternoon got her back into knitting puppets. She discovered that they had a knitting group similar to the Knit & Natter group in Ballycastle.
In the evening we were taken out to dinner by the President of the College Dr Adena Loston. During the evening she related her upbringing in Mississippi during the 1960s and her time as Director of Education at NASA in Houston. The restaurant was the Palm Restaurant. Richard had his first Texas steak!
24/01/2016 Sunday
We joined Matt Fuller at his church where he sings in the choir. We were given a very friendly welcome in Alamo Heights Presbyterian Church. The congregation was quite small and church was feeling the pressure of secularisation and population changes. After the service we went for lunch with the choir to a Taco restaurant and had a very friendly couple of hours. The music from the
choir itself was very good particularly considering the small congregation that it could draw on.