Houston Storm #1

Zach made a big mistake last night. He set an alarm with the intention of waking himself up a little early this morning so he could be productive.. except, in typical Zach fashion, the alarm went off and he pressed the snooze button. Unfortunately for him, there was no way that I was going to be awake and let him go back to sleep, after all he was the reason I was awake in the first place. So, I got him out of bed and we decided to enjoy the beautiful weather we were lucky to have this morning and go for a walk around Bear park.

Zach's excited walking face

We then had some breakfast at whataburger, since Zach's been dying to eat some biscuits and gravy. We stopped by IKEA to pick up an extra support leg for our bed, since we've determined that IKEA makes beds for little tiny Swedish people.

We then made our way home when it began to sprinkle. We hung around the house a bit before we got hit with our first true Houston storm. At first we were like, cool, lets sit outside on the balcony and watch the storm go by. Until the two loudest lightning thuds we've both ever heard hit, and then we recoiled like little babies inside our apartment. Then, we decided to take little films. Enjoy.

Note the "is that hail? there's hail coming down!" "Okay, now it's time to get in"

While it was storming, I decided to entertain myself and watch a documentary about a 3 Michelin star sushi restaurant in Tokyo, called Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It was an incredibly inspiring movie with some delicious snapshots of sushi. I couldn't finish watching the movie until I began to crave sushi. The storm began to subside and Zach and I agreed to go pick some up. On our way out, we saw a lady that was covered in mud  crossing one of the small bridges inside our apartment community. She was trying to rescue some kittens that had been caught under the bridge when it began to flood. Zach tried to help her, but he couldn't get the kitty out. Luckily the water began to drain and we hoped the mom would be able to get her kitten.

We left to get sushi, and it began to rain heavily again. The roads were a mess with traffic lights out, flooded streets and broken branches. We got close to the restaurant when we realized going out was a terrible idea. We placed our order and had to go to the bank to get some cash since the storm was affecting their credit card machine. As soon as we stepped out into the swamped parking lot, lightning striked. Zach and I both jumped. It scared the crap out of us, and even launched two car alarms off. We drove to the ATM which was close by, and I had to withdraw money under a little awning, the whole process took 20 seconds. Here's what I looked like after:

We picked up the sushi and headed home. We promised to never do that again.. even though it was soo worth it.