We are just wrapping up our visit to Austin, Texas. Home of the Texas Longhorns and some great tex mex. Austin, the state capital is very different from Houston and Dallas, it has kept its original charm and small town feel. Austin has grown from a population of 250,000 in the early 1980's to well over 1.3 million people today. They say it is the fastest growing city in the US. Austin is know as a City of Creativity and is home to Delll Computers. In fact ...

Our days are filled with meetings including officials at the State Department and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs our Program coordinators and sponors. As well, we had a meeting inside the House of Representatives yesterday - what a busy place with all the lobbysists running around! Have also visited the beautiful campus of Georgtown University and George Washington University. We are packing up today to leave Washington for our next stop Kansas...

Did sightseeing today with a fabulous historian who's great-grandfather painted the frescoes in the Capital Building - sites included the White House, the Capital Building, the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the Vietnam Memorial. This afternoon when to the Holocaust Museum.