Year in Review: The Honeymoon

Rather than having a reception immediately after the wedding, Parker and I chose to have the party with our friends and extended family in Austin at a later date.  Our reception was actually in early October, almost a month after the wedding.  It was nice to have a relaxing honeymoon in the desert after our tiny Terlingua wedding and not have to worry about entertaining a large crowd.    

View from the Candelilla House

While on our honeymoon, Parker and I did a little hiking in Big Bend National Park and a lot of relaxing  in Terlingua.    We stayed in the Candelilla House, a cute house in the ghost town of Terlingua, for the first portion of our stay.  The Candelilla House is a new adobe building built into the frame of one of the original crumbling ghost town structures.  The house had a small porch where we played with one of the neighbor's dogs, and spent a lot of our time watching the clouds roll in over the desert.  The first significant rainfall the area had seen in over a year occurred the morning of the wedding!  I think that must be good luck!      

Big Bend national Park

For the last two days of our honeymoon, Parker and I stayed in a cabin at Wild Horse Station to save some money.  The cabin wasn't as cute and quaint as the Candelilla House, but it had everything we needed.  The cabin was set high on a hill and had a nice little porch to watch the sunsets and buzzards.  Some of our fondest memories of Terlingua were on that porch!

Candelilla House porch

Parker on the porch at Wild Horse Station Cabin

Sunset at Wild Horse Station