Houston Art Car Parade

Last weekend we went to Houston to celebrate the wedding of our across-the-street neighbors. Theme (bride) is Chinese and Kil (groom) is Korean. The wedding was held at a Chinese restaurant in west Houston. This area could be considered the Chinatown of Houston, so this was not an Americanized restaurant, but had authentic Chinese food . . . or, at least, there wasn't anything I recognized! Suffice to stay, I'll probably not be switching our diet to all-Chinese, all-the-time anytime soon, but we had a lovely time. Plus, the traditional dress was amazing! Theme was so beautiful. Don't have any great photos, but this is probably the best . . .


Since the wedding was Saturday evening, we decided to stay in Houston that night and go to the Houston Art Car Parade. the following day. Sunday morning, though, we decided to try out a new church. We have been less than thrilled with Christ Church Cathedral (beautiful, but heterodox) so we visited St. Martin's, just north of the Galleria. The church was large, beautiful (see below), and seemed orthodox. Added bonus: George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury delivered the homily. Ahh, British accents!


After church, it was time to head to the Art Car Parade. This is something I've wanted to go to since I read about it several years ago. You can check out the link above for more info, but basically, anyone in Houston is welcome to decorate their car and enter it in the parade. There were lots of crazy entries, but here are a few that a) interested me or (more likely) b) I got a decent photo of: