Dang bruh, I can’t believe it was just mardi gras. Even as I was going to parades, and we went to a LOT of parades, I felt like I was still waiting for it to hit me. We had house guests and many friends in town, but it seemed like it was always still a few weeks away. Not that there was any shortage of king cake up in my house and at the office. I’ve been a total glutton for king cake since like the day after christmas or whenever they start selling. My diet only got worse as people arrived in town and every meal became fried shrimp.
The crowds this year seemed bigger than last year and everything felt a bit more hectic. We live about a mile from the parade route and wound up walking to quite a few parades from here when it was just too crowded to try to park any closer. I’ve got a friend who lives 2 blocks off of the Uptown route, too, so we saw a few from his house, but he lives in “the box” — the area of the city that gets blocked in once the parade starts going — and we couldn’t always get there.
One thing i noticed this year was a general lack of mardi gras music all around. I couldn’t find it on the radio — not even WWOZ — and I neglected to put it on my ipod and control my own MG music destiny. And now the time has passed.
I did, however, have a costume! Here are some pics:
