A wedding

Recently, I went down to Galveston to see my cousin J get married to his fiancée, M. What was really neat about this wedding is that J and M are somewhat nerds, so their wedding cake (with fondant) featured homages to their favorite games like Minecraft, the Katamari Damacy characters, and their characters from World of Warcraft (J had got M addicted to WoW last summer). Their choices of music were excellent, in my opinion, having the Braid "Downstream" theme for the groomsmen, an arrangement of the fairy fountain/file select theme from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the bridesmaids, and many other small references. J sang/played a song he composed for M, and E gave a small narrative on the lives of M and J. (E is J's sister, and was the one we were waiting for at the bus station nearly ten years prior, if you pay attention to my other blogs). Galveston itself was pretty depressing: most of the shops open were heavily-tourist shops (including a head shop called Hazy Daze) but a lot of stores, including the Peanut Butter Warehouse (it had a peanut butter/fudge pantry, plus antiques) were closed. The H-E-B Pantry was also the "Island Community Center" or something along those lines. The trolleys were still offline from Hurricane Ike. But it was nice and windy, so it wasn't all bad.

I noticed that nearly all the old Jack in the Box signs were gone (boo) including the one we went to in August 2008. Also, the "dated Travelodge" is now America's Best Value Inn & Suites.