Just some new pics

My parents made their 1st trip down to Austin last week. From a relaxing stroll down the Pedernales river to bat watching at the Congress Street Bridge, we had a a nice time showing them around the city and hill country. The anticipated highlight of the trip, a steam-train ride into Burnet, turned out to be a huge downer. I was told that Burnet was a quaint town in the hill country and I guess that I pictured something to the likes of Smicksburg. Besides the let down after a 2 hour train ride into a town littered with closed store fronts, we soon realized that we were a captive audience forced to listen to a 70 something year old short-tempered train attendant's sob story of how he got interested in trains during the train ride back. I was literally clinically depressed for 24 hours after returning to Austin. It sounded like a great idea at the time.

Forgive me for the poor resolution in the images below. Most were taken with my crappy point-and-shoot digital Nikon.