Trail of Lights '08
Every year, the City of Austin puts up a Christmas themed display they call the Trail of Lights. Merri Su and I have had the pleasure of seeing this display with our friends Erik, Sarah, and Isabel (who just turned 3 today). This year, before driving downtown, we drove by a few houses in the neighborhood that we were told had tremendous light dsiplays. I was expecting a Christmas display, not this.
Oh yes, hating your college football rival is clearly more important than Christmas. I actually completely understand this. Next year, I plan on asking this guy to decorate our roof in the same manner, but adding an 'S' between the 'O' and the 'U'. Perfect!
When we finally got downtown, we started at the Zilker tree. My guess is that the Zilker tree has been an Austin Christmas tradition longer than the Trail of Lights. Since we don't have many large pine trees in Texas, this is how we fake our Christmas trees.
It doesn't look like much, but the idea is to stand underneath it, look up...
and then spin.
I tried to show how cool this was to Isabel, but then she reached for Mom and Dad and started crying. I guess she doesn't like it when the big guy with facial hair picks her up and spins her around. Oh well. Maybe she'll like it next year!
After the tree, we went on to the Trail of Lights.
We sound out "Where the Wiled Things Are".
We found Dora, who was exploring animated versions of downtown Austin buildings. (Yes, it's creepy to everyone, not just you.)
Isabel pondered why the rapping snowman had a carrot nose.
We were frightened by the dancing cupcakes. (The dancing popsicles were also scary, but at least they didn't have any legs!)
If you saw a recent post on this blog, you know that we had a run in with techno space Santa. I wish that was the weirdest thing we saw.
We also saw this...
What are those? Some sort of famous people as space elf aliens painted on what looks like tombstones? shudder
Oh yes, hating your college football rival is clearly more important than Christmas. I actually completely understand this. Next year, I plan on asking this guy to decorate our roof in the same manner, but adding an 'S' between the 'O' and the 'U'. Perfect!
When we finally got downtown, we started at the Zilker tree. My guess is that the Zilker tree has been an Austin Christmas tradition longer than the Trail of Lights. Since we don't have many large pine trees in Texas, this is how we fake our Christmas trees.
It doesn't look like much, but the idea is to stand underneath it, look up...
and then spin.
I tried to show how cool this was to Isabel, but then she reached for Mom and Dad and started crying. I guess she doesn't like it when the big guy with facial hair picks her up and spins her around. Oh well. Maybe she'll like it next year!
After the tree, we went on to the Trail of Lights.
We sound out "Where the Wiled Things Are".
We found Dora, who was exploring animated versions of downtown Austin buildings. (Yes, it's creepy to everyone, not just you.)
Isabel pondered why the rapping snowman had a carrot nose.
We were frightened by the dancing cupcakes. (The dancing popsicles were also scary, but at least they didn't have any legs!)
If you saw a recent post on this blog, you know that we had a run in with techno space Santa. I wish that was the weirdest thing we saw.
We also saw this...
What are those? Some sort of famous people as space elf aliens painted on what looks like tombstones? shudder
posted by Ruhmann | 11:38 PM
1 Comments:
Those tombstone things are even freaky in daylight. You can see that part of the ToL from the hike & bike trail, and Lynn and I pondered what the heck it was when we ran by there last week.
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