Last Saturday was “Dickens on the Strand.” It’s a Christmas festival in Galveston where people dress up in Victorian clothes, and everyone pretends they are in Victorian London. Lots of people and lots of fun.

It used to be that if you can in costume, you got in free.  I don’t know if it is still that way or not, but most people were dressed up.

Everyone lines the street, and in the middle of the afternoon, they have “The Queen’s Parade.”  I am not sure how one gets chosen to be in the parade, but they march up Mechanic and down The Strand.