The Infamous www.benandchels.com

Hey Ya'll from big 'ol Texas! Check out our website for our photo albums and past updates....but know that we are slowly going to switch it all over to using this blogspot, and there will come a day when www.benandchels.com no longer exists. Sad, we know. It's been fun. Well, not always....We have to admit at times it was a lot of frustration - a love-hate relationship with technology. This just simplifies things. Right now we are having trouble getting on there to update it, so we will be doing it here. The the nice thing is that we will be updating this more frequently (maybe we'll even keep up with all moving we do!)....So bookmark this address and check it out once in a while would ya!?!
And P.S. : these photos are actually from our camping trip in Eureka Springs, Arkansas (beginning of October) - pretty crazy historic town! The country side of it is amazing and gorgeous in the fall.
We hope you have a great Thanksgiving!

Corpus Christi

"...we drove all night to get to Corpus Christi ..." (Sugarland) . Not really, but it is fun to go to all these places that some of my favourite country singers sing about! This Veteran's Day long weekend Ben & I drove to Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico. The winds were pretty high, so we decided to make it only a 1 night trip. Our first night we toured the Lexington and watched to "Fighter Pilot" IMAX on it. The next day we walked around all morning trying to find a decent place for Sunday brunch, and it was SO hot & windy out that by the time we found something we were kind of exhausted and ready to go back to San Antonio. But we decided to take ourselves on a driving tour of the 3 Islands off of Corpus Christi before we called it quits. And it was SOOO worth it. Once we got out of the city, with all the different roads, highways, and exits to wear us out, we just followed one road from island to island and it was SO relaxing and peaceful. There were old beach towns to gated beachfront communities that showed off such a colourful array of homes (we're talkin yellows, pinks, purples, greens & blues!). Of course we stopped to put our feet in the ocean and enjoy the sun, but I'm glad we didn't grab our swimsuits and go swimming because the other day someone told me that there are bull-sharks in there.....yikes. We didn't see any of those but we were pretty excited to see a dolphin on our little ferry ride!