Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Day 2: Valentines, Sunday


We woke up at 9 today and went to our special executive floor breakfast. Yum! They had tasty breakfast burritos for us and lots of fruit and pastries. Now it was time for us to check out those parades. As we read a pamphlet, we quickly learned that there were a tonne of parades in the next few days, each with a different sort of theme and flavour.

We wandered up St. Charles St. for a while and found a tasty “shrimp on a stick” for lunch at a carnival food booth.We settled next to a fire hydrant and got to see the “Krewe of Mid City” parade. As floats became visible, you could see all kinds of things flying out over the sides of the floats, like beads, cups, and other pretty random swag. Everyone was jumping up and down and cheering a lot, hoping to catch some of the beads and other neat stuff. At first we didn’t have a lot of beads, but quickly we caught more and more until by the end of the parade, we were totally covered with them. We also caught some neat cups and crazy masks. There were a lot of music, dancers, and marching bands in this parade.

After the parade, it was time to enjoy snacks and drinks at the executive lounge in the hotel. They had lots of hors d’oeuvres for us to eat.

Now it was time to check out Bourbon Street. This street was absolutely crazy! People were everywhere having a good time. The thing to watch out for was people dropping beads on your head from the balconies above. People were trying to mooch beads off of the people on the balconies. Some guys were hilarious and using fishing rods to fish for people, and baiting them with beads.

All around, there were bars and pubs. They even had takeout drinks! You were allowed to take your drinks onto the street as long as they were not in glass containers. We went to a neat bar called “Pat O’Brien’s” where we tried a crazy drink called the “Hurricane”. It was very red, and strong, but also very tasty and refreshing.

Now it was dinnertime, so we headed into a restaurant on Bourbon Street, where we both tried a different form of Jambalaya. We tried the regular rice Jambalaya and also Jambalaya pasta. Mmmm! So good! Next time we make it, we need to make ours more saucy. The Jambalaya was a spicy tomato based dish with sausage, chicken, peppers and onions.

It was time to call it a night, so we retreated to our hotel.

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