You wooined our whole wacation

For those of you not cool enough, the above quote is from Rat Race. We did not see that movie this Christmas vacation but we did do a ton of other stuff. First we have to thank Mom and Dad Kitchen for the addition to our Wii collection and then we have to thank Dana for truly devoting himself to the game and collecting every gold you pretty much can get. Our Christmas break started with a Holiday/Goodbye party with the High Performance Computing Center, my home away from home for the past year and a half. The week of Christmas was lots of sleeping in and a trip down to Big Bend National Park right off the Mexico border. Pictures will follow. In traditional Gailan fashion our four day trip quickly turned into a two day trip when we realized that winter camping is actually quite cold. Who knew? The days were gorgeous and the camp fire roaring. I even came up with a snappy version of Deck the Halls to go along with this blog but upon review realized it was only actually funny if you were shivering at five in the morning surrounded by the call of coyotes. We hiked all day on Christmas Eve and in case you can't guess what our other Christmas present was, just check out Dana's forty two thousand (billion) pictures dedicated to desert landscapes. All in all it was a short, exhausting, very amusing Christmas trip in true Gailan style. A belated Merry Christmas to all our friends and family. We hope you had just as much fun as we did--only we hope you brought matches for your fire.