Month: January 2009

Christmas 2008: Austin Trail of Lights

We had a great trip to Austin again this year, Leilani really like visiting Grandma and Grandpa, and it was relaxing for us parents.

This year we arrived on the 23rd of December, just in time for the last evening of Austin’s Trail of Lights. It’s a 1.5 mile-long display at the city park, all decorated with various scenes and lot of lights—over a million they said in true Texas style. It was very pretty, and given the entrance alone, almost believable.

The scenes were mostly cartoon and Disney characters, not always painted very well. Others were more creative, but except for Rudolph and a manger scene, not all that Christmas-y. Here are some of the better ones:

Above is Mother Goose, the cow jumping over the moon, the dish, and the spoon, done in the style of a book that Leilani actually has. The Texas armadillos below were almost cute (ask Jim if armadillos in your garden are really cute), but the prettiest by far were the trees.

Where the Wild Things Are, originally by Maurice Sendak: