Showing posts with label parade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parade. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2008

More Mardi Gras!

We went to two more parades today. We saw the Carrolton Parade and the King Arthur Parade. We found another great spot on St. Charles and set up shop. I was thinking as the parades went on that I should be blogging about the weird things we get on the parade route instead of the parade itself. Today we got two huge combs and a backscratcher. Weird huh? I also was handed several strands of home strung beads that are just gorgeous. Gabe loves the bands and tried to march away with several of them. He is just too funny. I wish I had pictures of when he gave a pink teddy bear to a little girl riding behind a dance team. Dominic is getting into the parade spirit also and many of the float riders were handing him toys and beads. As you can see, he didn't make it to the end. He took a nice little nap in the back seat of the stroller about halfway through the second parade. The boys had a really great time and Gabe is already begging to go do it again. Make sure you check out the huge pile of stuff we brought back and also the video of gabe dancing at the end. It's pretty funny!


















Saturday, January 26, 2008

Mardi Gras has started!

We went to our very first Mardi Gras parades today. There are four parades going on in New Orleans today but we only went to two of them. We saw the Ponchartrain and the Shangri-La. They were really neat! We got bucket loads of beads and toys. That made Gabe happy! We even got hit with a piece of rubber poop that was thrown by a gorilla on a motorcycle! We will be skipping the evening parades this weekend but will probably catch a few next weekend. The last picture is all our loot! If you look close, you can probably find the rubber poo!

























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