I'm off to the Big Easy again

[Charley]

Its that time of year once more. I'm headed to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. See you guys in a couple of days :cool

[Brian]

Hey, have fun Chuckles.

I'd love to catch a Mardi Gras one of these days. I would go this year, but for lack of funding.

Hence the reason for Operation: Brian Wins! (inside joke)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

When is Mardi Gras, the 24?

[Darth Viscera]

Have fun!

(and by "fun" I mean stay the heck away from my lunatic heroine-addicted cousins, and lousiana females in general, they're nuts AND POISONOUS)

edit~ eat roast beef po-boys and shrimp po-boys and red beans & rice and rice pudding and whatnot

[Leon Dagrelle]

I got dibs on his guns and knives if he dont come back.

Have fun Charley Charles.

[Dasquian Belargic]

:wave Have fun. Get flashed.

[Darth Viscera]

Originally posted by Dasquian Belargic
:wave Have fun. Get flashed.

See, I'm leery of getting flashed there. I was walking down Bourbon Street one day, looking right to left at the sexy women and flashy establishments, and all of a sudden I looked right and saw my cousin Brandy poledancing! OMG WTF NONONONO

^^true story, not a fabrication. ever since that happened I prefer hanging out with my relatives on my mom's side, there's less social embarassment with persians than with cajuns.

[Crystal]

Have fun. Don't get flashed.

[ReaperFett]

Have fun. Flash Vis.

[Charley]

I'm back.

Mardi Gras isn't really a single day. Its around 2 weeks prior to Ash Wednesday, and just keeps getting bigger the closer you get to Fat Tuesday. I went down on Friday and left this morning.

I didn't go into the French Quarter this year. I stuck strictly to Metairie and St. Charles, and attended the parades. One on friday I can't remember the name of, then Endymion on Saturday, then the Middle City Parade, then Bacchus on Sunday. Very fun stuff. Lee Ann Rimes was the Grand Marshall at Endymion, and I think Will Clark and a few others were there too. For Bacchus, it was Elijah Wood. He tossed me this little plastic token with his face on it, so I'll give that to my sister.

I mainly did the "non-tourist" Mardi Gras this year, hanging out with a few of the natives. We cooked up crawfish fetuccini, ate a lot of king cake, then went to my friend's aunt's timeshare on St. Charles for some chicken jambalaya, then across the street for some crawfish bread. Friday night I drank beer and ate raw oysters, and the other days, I drank from a jug of Jim Beam, and finished most of it.

The floats were great. Endymion had a movie theme this year. The movies that I can remember that had floats were Star Wars, ET, Titanic, Kill Bill, Lord of the Rings, Gladiator, Nightmare Before Christmas, Love Potion Number 9, and I can't remember the rest.

[Arya Ravenwing]

Sounds like a blast, glad you got home safely. :)

[Charley]

I'm exhausted. I left at 8 AM, got home at 12:45, and I've got class in 15 minutes.

[Darth Viscera]

what? Elijah Wood? Elijah Wood was there?

[Charley]

Originally posted by Darth Viscera
what? Elijah Wood? Elijah Wood was there?

Well I didn't exactly stutter.

[Zasz Grimm]

Originally posted by Darth Viscera
what? Elijah Wood? Elijah Wood was there?


apparently visc is. :: patpat ::

[Darth Viscera]

Poor Elijah Wood, going to the craziest of all states. I hope he wasn't accosted by any Louisiana nutcases.

Metairie is nice, it's not so much the white trashmobile that new orleans proper and the surrounding areas are.

[Charley]

Thats because the property value is like a half mil for the LOT only, much less the house itself.

When you're cruising near St. Charles, around Napoleon, Milan, and other such streets, you can literally see the dividing line between affluent neighborhoods and "the ghetto". One one side of the street, well kept, nice houses. On the other, broken windows, peeling paint, etc.

Bizarre stuff.