Last trip to Houston as an American resident

My employment in America has officially come to an end. The school year was over about a month ago and my last week of camp was a week ago, and everyone made my last day a memorable one! I've been running this camp for the last 3 summers and its really evolved into an awesome summer experience for these kids. I walked into camp on my last day, and this is what I was greeted with!

I dressed up as Hannah Montana during the morning meeting one week, so this is what one kid drew on the poster.

This girl has been my Chemistry student, Physics student and camp counselor. She's awesome!

I went over to the  rec center and my bosses had a cake and a little party for me. They're so good to me!

This is the front entrance of camp. I'm sure the parents loved playing limbo all day.

I have planned a few trips to see some special people before I leave for 10 months. My first trip was to Houston and it was so much fun! I went on Monday and stayed with the Hendersons for a few days. They adopted Ruthie exactly 2 years ago on Tuesday so we went to Moody Gardens and celebrated. My mom also asked Ginny if she'd take a few pictures of my while I was down visiting, so our trip to Galveston turned into a photo shoot.

We went on an adventure the first day I was there to get Ginny a cover for her camera and we were testing it out underwater. It was pretty awesome! Ginny posted several more on her blog http://www.4uruthie.blogspot.com/. You should definitely check them out!

This is at the Rainforest in front of a cool door.

Sam had to tickle me to get a genuine smile. :)



I was able to spend some time with some old college friends. I had dinner with Dustin one night, dinner with Michelle (my roommate from my freshman year). We still joke about how I taught her how to use a hand-held can-opener, start a load of laundry and make a bed. She'd be lost without me!

Another major highlight of my Houston trip was skydiving! I absolutely loved it! We went to Skydive Spaceland just outside of Houston. I went with my old college neighbor Al and a few of his friends. The weather wasn't great and it delayed out dive by about 9 hours. It was a lot of waiting, but completely worth it! I made some great new friends in the process! As soon as I upload the video, I'll share it. Here are a few pictures that the cameraman captured. I definitely plan on going back every year!



This is the whole group! They were a fun bunch to jump with.



This is right before we jumped...14000 feet!

I definitely had the coolest instructor. He said next time we wont do the video and do some stunts in the air. Apparently thats not really allowed when you jump tandem.

I wasn't warned on how hard the pull was when the shoot opened. I pretty much went straight back up almost kicking myself in the face.

Great capture of the excited I had after the dive! Totally doing this again and again and again...

Sadly, I had to come back to Dallas after such an awesome time in Houston, but it was good to see my Dallas family again. I will definitely miss my Houstonians while I'm overseas! Next trip: Chicago.