Spanish Town Mardi Gras 2006
A little rain couldn't dampen my spirits for the only Mardi Gras Parade that I do all season. My band couldn't play, but that just meant I had more time hanging out with my friends and taking goofy pictures. So here's my third installment of Spanish Town Mardi Gras pics (click on the pics for a better view).
You just knew that this year's theme would be hurricane related. The theme for this year's Spanish Town Mardi Gras was Femature Evacuation.
What I thought would be just a party pic of my friend Cody turns into something a little cooler when taken with the background. Repent! Repent! Stop making fools of yourselves chasing after plastic jewelry. (As a sidenote, I'd like to add that I've always thought that the wages of piousness and piety are death as well).
I also like how the guy with the sign is next to the One Way sign and the No Parking sign.
This is the obligatory child-at-Mardi-Gras photo, just to prove that it's a family affair after all. I don't know who they are, but they were standing next to me, and my camera was loaded.
My buddies Corey and Mark. Nice paper-mache mask! The only paper-mache I ever did in my life was a landscape of the Gettysburg battle site.
In between photos I glanced up and saw someone I knew on the float passing. He recognized me and was able to throw me one of their premium throws before the float sped off. It's the best throw I've ever gotten at Mardi Gras: a parody of the classic Hooters shirt, given a Katrina twist.
I finally got the idea to get really close in order to take pictures of the people on the floats...right when the last float went by. I don't know who these girls are, but the one looks happy.
Dave from Chelsea's toot his own horn.
Just after the parade, a spontaneous group gathers on a nearby porch, banging on drums and cowbells and screaming "Mardi Gras!" This guy just happens to have a harmonica handy.
This guy sees me taking pictures of the scene on the porch so he tells me to get a load of his barbecue. On the left is probably a carcass, but it kind of looks like my paper-mache diorama of the Gettysburg battlesite. On the right is a large amount of aluminum foil. The dude in the background is priceless...and for some reason reminds me of Hank Williams Jr.
So then I head over to the Mardi Gras party over at Dave's where my band was supposed to play.
Although my band couldn't play the big stage out in the yard, there is a band playing on the back porch. It's Breaker 1-9 featuring Clark on the vocals. He was upset that nobody ever played Mardi Gras music at Mardi Gras, so he got his band to learn a ton of them for this party.
I'll wrap up this batch of Spanish Town Mardi Gras pictures with Heather, just like I did two years ago. In the background is her husband. When they married, she took his last name, Day. Then when they had their daughter last year, they named her Sunny. So even amidst the dreary rain, we still had a Sunny Day.
Well, there's another picture I have where I posed with my dentures removed. For some reason I don't look too good in that one. I'll keep it to myself.
Other Spanish Town pictures:
You're making me feel homesick. We'd actually talked about going to Spanish Town Mardi Gras, but never got our act together. -=sigh=-
I posted the pictures so that those who couldn't make it would get some joy out of it. But now I see I have only created misery. Sorry.
Glad to see you survived it all...as well as took pictures so you could have some memories of the event.
If only I had taken pictures when I was in my 20s...
That made me miss BR, too. In the 2004 pics, the fool up the tree with the trombone is Dr. Cason Duke. I miss him, too. Our neighborhood has the neighborhood parade up north here. But I was out of town.