We haven't lived in Louisiana since 2006. We haven't been to a Louisiana Mardi Gras parade since we moved away. As such, we forgot how BIG Louisiana does up these parades... So we showed up right at 11:00am when the parade was set to start, and parked near the end so that "we wouldn't miss anything" since we felt like we were late...
...waiting...
...waiting with cotton candy...
...waiting while playing with new friends...
...waiting while dancing to the music other groups are playing on the sidelines...
...and 2 hours later the cops arrived, signaling that the parade floats were finally within screaming distance!
Small town parades do not use barricades, so you are able to dance in the street and pick up any poorly tossed beads before they get crushed by parade float tires...
Cora got REALLY good at screaming for beads and dancing in the street...
(Perhaps the best beads he's ever caught)
THREE hours after it's start, the parade was still going. We bailed because we were all tired and very overdue for lunch. The kids were pleased with their beads (Cora handed me any of the ones she caught that weren't the short, small bead strands because they were too heavy for her, and because she's OCD and wanted them all to match) and thought the Carencro parade was awesome! We promptly headed over to Prejean's (just a mile down the highway, and one of our favorite restaurants in the Lafayette area). We had just missed the live music, but we didn't mind (parades are LOUD, so it was nice to have a little peace and quiet to talk, and the kids enjoyed some time on their Kindles while their mama and daddy ordered appetizers and giant plates of creole pasta and ettoufee).
(The giant stuffed gator in the middle of Prejean's. This wasn't their first trip to see "Big Al"...)
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