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This Saturday from 10am until 9pm is Artcrawl Houston
Details here "The original cluster of artists warehouses in Downtown Houston annual open studios Artcrawl Houston 2009
This year we have over one hundred eighty artists and art organizations involved!
Since 1992, the tradition of the artists "open studios" takes place on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Visitors have the opportunity to pARTicipate in the live/work/show spaces of these neighborhood"urban pioneers". The mission of the ARTCRAWL is to assists the public in understanding contemporary art by directly involving the visitors in a dialogue with local artists in the Artist Warehouse District of Downtown Houston."
If you go and take pictures, let us know! We'll add them to our favorites
Also--i might be making the trip to see one of my prof's galleries
Our Winner! Option B:
Discovery Green
[link]Price: Free!
Ice carving contest going on that day!!!
Details right now will need YOUR input!
Right now we have a dinner poll up and i'll be closing that friday morning and opening the short list later that night.
Why later that night? I plan on getting some photos for y'all so you can have a better idea of what you're voting on 
The new dinner poll is up! Please vote as soon as you can
I didn't get a chance to get photos today but I will soon
AND im going to get some photos of where we are meeting.
Here's the thing about Discovery Green--if you want to have like a party of more than 15 people, they request that you reserve an area.
Well, I don't really have any intentions of doing that mostly because the cost is rather high and especially on a saturday.
So--
there will be NO SIGNS leading up to the event.
There may or may not also be tables available because it will be a saturday.
So-- we'll be picnic styling it

There are a lot of really neat things to see here so you'll totally be encouraged to explore and enjoy at your leisure while we hold down a base camp so to speak.
So to recap:
Make sure you vote in the polls if you're going to be attending
Stay posted via journals here
Offer any comments, questions, or blinding flashes of insight.
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