Christmas '08 • Big Bend, TX

Happy Holidays from the BeanSpot! We just returned from a 5 day road trip in southwest Texas. Wow...1300+ miles later we arrived home dusty and happy for our own beds but what a good time we had.

We began in Marfa, Texas were we spent Christmas Eve at a fabulous old hotel. Although it was very quite and mostly closed due to the holiday, we were able to talk a little walk around this one-horse town and look in the windows of some of the galleries for which the town is known.




Then onto Big Bend National Park where we had two nights camping for the first time with the bean. At 15 months old, we had no idea what would happen. Were we crazy to try it?

Of course not.
The little man was fabulous. He had a great time exploring our camp site and chilllin' with the trees. Playing with mom and sleeping in the tent.





He even hiked 6+ miles up a mountain top - just to see what he could see.
What a bean!




























We hope you're holiday with family and friends was full of festivities and we wish you all joy and health in the New Year!

Trail of Lights

Austin has been fabulous in December '08.
We were able to watch the leaves fall, take some great hikes and visit the Trail of Lights - a 1.5 mile loop in Zilker Park. Thankfully it is only a little walk from our house so a group of us headed over in mid-December for a night under the lights. The bean didn't quite know what to make of it and ... I think ... was mesmerized by it all.