Another day with more parades and more beads. Why do we still try and catch them, I ask myself? Who knows but even the natives vie for beads and according to our friend, Bernie, they had attics full of them. Some are recycled but kids love to keep theirs forever.
We saw the Knights of Babylon parade which had been rained out so was jammed into a spot on Sunday morning. Their bands were in another parade so we enjoyed the floats which had a mask theme. Fantastic costumes, too. We got a slew of plastic cups and Glen also caught a nerf football.
We had bought Glen a 'Saints' hat so he is always the centre of attention. Everyone loves his alligator hat but if he wears the Saints cap, they cry Who Dat! New Orleans is still celebrating the Superbowl win.
We had lunch at Gordon Biersch which was super busy so we waited for a table. While we did so a pipe band, which had played in the parade, marched through the restaurant. Glen had a crab cake sandwich and finally found the crab cake he's been searching for. I had shrimp and lobster tacos which were excellent.
Afterwards we watched the Thoth parade and guess what? We go more beads! We saw the tail end of the parade so watched how they split the floats from the marching bands. The staging area for the floats is close to our hotel so we saw many comings and goings. We actually saw the Bacchus floats before they began their evening parade.
We met up with Bernie at Drago's restaurant and shared a feast of raw oysters before having their famous charbroiled ones for our main course. We then walked to the parade route and were able to meet up with Bernie's son who invited us up to a party in his friend's condo, right on St. Charles. We had brought beer so had a great time partying and watching the Bacchus parade. Glen shouted himself hoarse trying to get the young guys on the floats to toss beads up to our third floor balcony so the kids at the party could have beads. He was very successful and they were thrilled.
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