Everything's bigger in Texas

My last trip for the month of March was Houston Texas. The city reminds me of a hybrid between suburbia and major metropolitan area. It's interesting- you get a bit of both when you're in Houston. I spent the majority of my time near Rice University and the major hospitals nearby. WOW, it is amazing how much money there is at Rice and the UT Hospitals. Can they share their wealth? HAHA I was really blown away by how they could afford these million dollar buildings...

I had a wonderful tour of the Rice Campus (beautiful by the way), visited Rice Village briefly, went "downtown", and even took a nice sunny trip to the zoo. (and of course ate LOTS of delicious food in between)

While the environment was super nice, and there was definitely a great variety of delicious foods to eat...unfortunately I could not see myself spending the next 5 years of my life there. I think at the end of the day I am still an East coast girl at heart, so I'm going to have to pass on the "midwest". HAHA

Here are some photos from Houston. Enjoy!

Trip to the zoo
(located literally in the middle of the city!!)

This animal is a hybrid of a zebra and ??

The giraffe was SOO close!!! AMAZING

Rice Bioengineering building:

near the campus:

Old Bioengineering building
(the slabs of rock are called 360, 45, and 90. HAHA)

Overview of Rice/Houston area from the engineering building
(WOW... would love to see this EVERYDAY . HAHA)

Houston at night: