I went to Mardi Gras on the last weekend before the actual day. This is when Mardi Gras is at its absolute wildest. Upon arriving in New Orleans, we sat down for awhile (I have no idea why, We had been sittin in a car for the last eight hours) After awhile we decided to go down to the French Quarter, or actually Bourbon Street. We actually got to Bourbon Street sometime around midnight (in the process of walkin through the French Quarter I spotted Jim Belushi gettin out of a limo) Anyway we get to Bourbon street and all I can say is it was a "Sea of Humanity" People were pushin and shovin everywhere it was hell just tryin to move around. We walked a coupla blocks down Bourbon before I saw one of the truly funniest things I've ever seen. Standing in the middle of the intersection of Bourbon and Vine (I think) was a guy with a big loudspeaker horn thing, theres about twelve or thirteen guys standing all around him holding signs and just all around coverin his ass. This guy is screaming into this bullhorn tellin people to stop this satanist activity, to fall to their knees and repent, and all this other stuff. So I walk up to the guy and say "Hey isnt Mardi Gras a christian holdiay?" and hes like "Yeah" and so I think for a second and I say "And its satanic too thats interesting." He gives me the worlds greatest go to hell look and I walk off cause I can smell beer somewhere off down the road...at least I thot I did actually It was on my shoe but whatever. So anyway we wander around for a coupla more hours looking at all the scenery LOL (there was a little somethin for everyone) Somewhere while we were wandering around Bourbon Street we ran into a coupla friends of ours from Nac. that had planned on sleeping in there car...so we picked them all up and continued to party About 3 or so we decided to head back to Mike's house (he lives in New Orleans)...on the way we got a little separated by the crowd and had to pull a coupla people over police cars (left a nice long, black, shoe mark) We finally get back to Mike's house andthere are three pizzas waiting on us when we get there (Papa John's) which just brings a perfect ending to a perfect night. On Day Two, we get up around 10:30 and head out to a coupla parades...right before the first parade I spotted Donald Trump cruising by in his limo (I damn near tripped out) So the parades come, they were relatively small so the floats werent incredible but they were still pretty cool for the most part. We stood on the side of the road, screamin and grabbing at beads and other stuff for 4 hours or so then we head back to Cavaroc's house. Now theres a coupla 6 foot sandwiches we munch like madmen and then head back out to the French Quarter, to see a coupla street performers, the first guys did the human slinky down these stairs which was pretty awesome, and he juggled 3 flaming sticks on an 8 foot unicycle. Next came what we had really come to see. These three homeless guys came out to dance. They were funnier than I dunno what...and they did some crazy flips and jumps and all these dance moves that no white guy (such as myself) could ever dream of pulling off. After which we walked back down to the French Quarter to see Endymion, one of the two biggest parades of Mardi Gras. Were standing here at the very front for most of the parade and these three girls are behind us flashing all the guys on the floats and were pretty much gettin all the beads (mind you these chicks were geourgeous) so after a few minutes they come and tap me on the shoulder and there like "Hey if you let us stand in front of you we'll show you our merchandise and give you some beads." Generally its the other way around but I wasnt about to tell em that. So I say hell yeah..go right ahead (I guess that makes me a perv, but I dont care) And when they put that first string of beads over my head I felt like a war hero...After awhile and a buttload of beads they left...I got a kiss for bein such a nice guy, and about a half hour later we took off. All in all I had a great time and if you can ever go to Mardi Gras I would.
(April 11) --- Last night was ZBTahiti, one of the biggest if not the biggest party of the year. I have yet to figure out how one frat can have the two biggest parties of the year. There Goes The Neighborhood is their other big party. Anyway on to the actual story. We left the dorms at about 10 and went over to a Pre-ZBTahiti party at our friends (Ryan and Beaker) apartment. I proceeded to get a buzz, but not quite trashed. LOL This was mainly off Flaming Dr. Peppers and 3 and 1/2 20 oz. of Kermits. But anyway we went to the party at about 11:15 or so, and since all the beer we brought was hot I stopped drinking. My buzz was completely gone by 1:30 when we left, which left me able to drive Stephanie's tahoe back to the dorms. But anyway back to the party, The had a live band, Core Factor, which was pretty cool what little we heard of them (They played that old-school Faith No More song...I dunno what its called...oh yeah,Epic and Come Together...if thats not variety I dont know what is) There was also a DJ...although I have no eartly idea what he was playin. They had one of those moonwalk jumpy things...I dunno what they're called. oh yeah and they're called oh yeah and they had 2 3 foot beer bongs, and a five foot beer bong. Which was cool I didnt get to do one tho because I was to busy bein a good samaritan and carrying drunk people out of the party. But whatever, the party was awesome in and of itself...and I would have to say that the funniest thing that happened last night was listening to myself cheering some guy on tryin to get him to puke. "Dan, Dan hes our man if he cant toss it no one can!" I was feeling very witty....until I had to carry him out of the party...But all in all it was a good night...
