Halloween...Texas Style

There is something about the lone star state that amazes. Forget about the devotion to high school football (trust me Friday Night Lights is an accurate description), the conservative outlook, that food should be served in huge amounts dripping with butter/oil and everything unhealthy....

So I found myself in Texas for Halloween. Now I have celebrated Halloween in quite a few US cities - NYC is still the best. But when my friends asked me if I want to accompany them (and their wonderful daughters) for Trunk N' Treating, I first was confused as to what this was about. Since I knew kids were involved I was little more at ease.

So we went to this parking pot adjacent to the church. As I stepped foot into the compound, I seriously considered the chances of a lighting bolt striking me down. But thankfully nothing happened. As I waited and watched, a line of vechiles (minivans, SUVs, pickup tucks) made their way to the parking lot. They parked the vechiles and then the onwer(s) all dressed up popped open their trunks(I am using the term trunk liberally since most were SUVs/Minivans/Pickup Trucks) and volia, the trunks were decked up like a house on Halloween. Kids then went from vechile to vechile getting candy, hot chocolate, hot dogs (I am not kidding) etc.



And then after all the fun of at the church, we made way to see Johnny Memphis. He is a legend in around Temple area. Apparently he is a one man Elvis tribute artist. He makes it clear he is not an Elvis fan or Elvis cover band or Elvis impersonator but an Elvis tribute artist. One thing is sure, he has the energy to rock n' roll for over 3 hours.