One thing that I am getting used to here in Houston is the rain. Having grown up in the sunny, but dry state of California, I’m not used to the high frequency of rain that we get here. I’m not complaining about it because it’s always great to get a break from the heat. During these last few days, we’ve had scattered T-storms, which has kept us indoors for the most part.

Since we didn’t want to spend our whole weekend in the apartment, we decided to go out with friends and catch a evening showing of Wall-E. Going into the movie, I knew that it was going to be different from the rest of the Pixar films. This one had very limited dialogue and I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out. It ended up being and OK movie, but definitely not one of our favorite Pixar movies. I think that I liked it a little bit more than Diane, but we were both a little bored during parts of the movie.

After a late night on Friday, we got up “early” (7am) and headed out to a service project that ExxonMobil was holding in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity. A group of us headed to this low-income neighborhood that was built by HfH and we distributed each family in the neighborhood a Dell PC and hooked them up with dial-up Internet from AT&T. They families were supposed to get free DSL Internet, but AT&T hasn’t yet wired the neighborhood for it, so they were stuck on dial-up. After setting up a few houses with the equipment, I am grateful to have a high-speed Internet connection. I don’t know what I’d do without it.

Last night, we went out to dinner with another couple and then played games with some friends over at Mark and Kyra’s. It’s been great to have them in our ward down here. Through them, we’ve been able to meet some fun, young couples like ourselves and we’ve been able to hang out a ton.