What you've got here is a purdy shot of downtown. And a big ol' teevee. I'd never watched TV on the Continental Bridge before. Nice.

Here is Eric Celeste being touched inappropriately by a mutant shrub that crawled out of the Trinity river bottom and walked around the party on stilts. Creepy. I'm talking about Eric.

Santiago Calatrava is the architect who designed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, which you'll soon see rising over the river. Calatrava said he hoped no one would die building his bridge. Just as important, he signed my forehead toward the end of the evening. I think he'd been overserved. Or I was. Hard to say.

These are the hands that actually dug the current channel for the Trinity River. They belong to our mayor.

Then it was time for fireworks. There was a countdown. As you can see, a large switch was thrown -- and, like, three fireworks detonated, leaving everyone, including Councilman Dwaine Caraway, in the foreground, going, "Really? You call THAT fireworks?" Then, after everyone kinda just gave up, suddenly the fireworks went off. I'm guessing Jim Schutze was down in the river bottom, where they were shooting them, tring to sabotage the deal.

This is Ray Washburne, the guy who recently bought Highland Park Village. At the end of the night, his head exploded.