Arrived in Houston, safe and sound

We pulled into Houston today a little bit before 7--turns out traffic getting out of Austin was a little more sluggish than anticipated. No worries, though, our hosts have been very flexible and friendly so far. We met Ben and Frances, both in their freshman year of college, who are CUSE interns this summer and will be helping us in our activities this week. For dinner, they led us over to a place called Bombay Pizza, which had (as you might guess) Indian pizza. None of us had ever eaten anything like it before, but *almost* all of us really enjoyed it (ha)! When we got back to the cathedral where we are staying, Frances led a short presentation on the basics of urban poverty, both causes and characteristics, and linked it into some of the text of our baptismal covenant, really making it clear that we're here as part of our commitment as Christians. It set a good tone for the next few days.

We also discovered Rock Band (the Xbox game), so some folks are jamming to Bon Jovi right now. It's just about bedtime, though, since we're getting up at 5:15 tomorrow morning... phew! I'll post up pictures tomorrow night of our adventures.

Till then, God's peace, y'all!

~Matt