…is where my Goddaughter was baptized. Fascinating church, combining as it does elements from so many different styles (not that I’m any sort of expert). Fra Angelico. A style I have come to think of as classic ’50s American Catholic. Celtic? Iconography. Mission (the ceiling). Art Deco. ’70s stained-glass (post Vatican II trippy color panels, but still holding onto tradition a little bit with the faces). More iconography, this time with a more Russian tinge? Gothic (the lamps) and Roman (the pillars).
Our Lady of Las Vegas
June 26, 2006 by at 8:53 am
This is where I went when I was in Vegas in February…
http://www.lasvegas-diocese.org/parishes_guardian_angel.html
I’d describe the architecture as “Dr. Who enters a Benedictine Monestary.” It’s a long walk from the Ventian, by the way.
Outstanding. By the way, Stormtrooper-boy, when are you heading out west to SoCal?
Don’t tempt me.
Short answer: I may never get back to SoCal.
The spousal unit was out in SoCal (very briefly) for her reunion. I could not go because my brother was in town, and someone has to watch our kids. We’ve already booked a week in August up in Skan-town. Bambino El Numero Quatro is due in November, which has further depleted vacation time and funding.
My trip to Vegas was work-related. And it ended up being more work than fun, ironically enough. I can’t find any reason for them to send me to California, though.
Nevertheless, San Diego remains in the “Top Five US vacation destinations” at the Not-Ted Center of Operations.
So we shall see.
Here’s hoping….