Well I ended up going to see Hermes and Crew D'Etat on Friday. Since I rode with my neighbor Alice-Anne I couldn't wait to see Muses which was rolling after another parade. Supposedly it didn't end til almost 1:00am. The D'Etat parade is probably in my top five parades. They always skewer local and national politicians via their float designs. Very funny stuff.
Saturday I ended up going to an Endymion party in Mid-City at my friend Brenda's house. Endymion is a super parade and has over 2500 riders. You can't even fathom what that means til you sit through one of their parades. They haven't done the Mid-City parade route since Katrina so people were out in full force. I didn't stay to watch the parade because it's total chaos so I went to meet up with Isabel to pick up my new craft desk from Pier 1. It's not real wood but it's only $300.00 and you can't beat that. Now I have a place to lay out my jewelry making stuff. I ended up going to see Bingo(the lead singer sung the national anthem at the BCS Championship Bowl) on Saturday at One Eyed Jacks in the quarter. The funny thing is we left about 1:30amish and we were still kind of sober. We drove through the quarter and watched in amazement at how drunk people were. There was people walking around barefoot, lying on the ground, throwing up or pretty much all kinds of nasty stuff.
On Sunday, I headed out to Bacchus and met up with Isabel and her family. We stayed almost to the end. That's a great super parade too. Hulk Hogan was the king and he was huge. Check him out. Ok, I didn't get a good one of him on his float but the float of him is pretty cool. Early evening on this on
On Monday, I took the day off and decided to run errands I'd been wanting to run them for awhile and lo and behold most places were closed. Didn't make me happy. Anyway, I ended up going to the warehouse district to catch Orpheus, my favorite super parade. It was awesome and I ended up catching Jon Cleary afterwards. BTW, did I tell you that someone offered me two free tickets to the Orpheus Ball. I passed on them since Bryan couldn't make it and I couldn't think of anyone who'd want to go. Anyway talked to some guys in the elevator in the parking garage who were coming back from the ball. They said it sucked so I don't feel too bad. Couple of pics from Orpheus. Look really closely at the float picture because there is a bunch of people on it so you can get an idea of how big it is. I like the guy in the gladiator chariot. You don't see the woman leading him b/c these guys aren't professionals. I LOVE ORPHEUS!
Mardi Gras was pretty lame since I didn't want to get out of bed b/c I was slightly hungover. Ended up meeting Bryan and his parents and kids out in Metairie. Let me just say that it'll be the last time. It's not New Orleans Mardi Gras that's all I'll say.
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