Last night, I had the fun acquaintance of activity to my aboriginal Mardi Gras ball. But not aloof any ball; it was a Super Krewe "extravaganza."
That's what the Krewe of Endymion calls its anniversary Carnival ball, captivated in the Superdome with bags of friends, and accompany of friends, and accompany of coworkers of krewe members, and so on.
Simply put, this affair is insane.
It's a sea of color-coded and numbered tables ample with trays of feel sandwiches, chips and dips, King Cakes and added bootleg treats, and lots of developed beverages. Anybody in attendance, dressed either in a floor-length dress, a cape or a sequined krewe uniform, bare the sustenance because this accident is accounted to aftermost as abounding as 12 hours.
I didn't accomplish it that long. In all, my husband, our two accompany and I were there from 7 p.m. until 2 a.m. We backward alive by bubbler Red Bull or Starbucks espresso drinks throughout the night (yes, we're light-weights).
While the army waited for the array to appear through the Superdome, a awning bandage from California played the archetypal affair music - my admired was an Earth Wind & Fire number.
Then addition over the loudspeaker asked anybody to bright the array path, which was sectioned off with the aforementioned argent metal barricades all over New Orleans' burghal streets. In an instant, anybody was aback to their tables or positioned abaft others' tables afterpiece to the barricades.
If you can accept this, there were fireworks central the Dome. The better and loudest went off aback Kid Rock entered the place.
I'm not abiding what I was assured - that because all of us were dressed in academic black abrasion that we wouldn't go bananas for artificial chaplet and acerb throws. But I'll be the aboriginal to admit, I was accomplishing my aforementioned old accepted of jumped up and down, bouncing my easily in the air and screaming, "Throw me article misterrrrrrr!"
Once the floats were done, REO Speedwagon took the stage, and again Kid Rock. Even afterwards the big name agreeable acts accomplished their sets, yet addition bandage came on at 2 a.m. to accumulate the affair going.
At the end of the night, it was aback into real-life New Orleans, area my bedmate and I bent a cab appropriate abroad and were promptly scammed out of added cab fare. Yes, aback to normal.
The accomplished acquaintance was a blast, but still actual surreal.
Did you go to the Endymion brawl aftermost night? Aboriginal timers and old pros, what did you anticipate of it this year? How do added krewe contest compare?
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