Mardi Gras is celebrated the week before Lent and from Pensacola west to New Orleans, there are parades the couple of weeks prior. The BIG Pensacola Mardi Gras Parade is always on a Saturday afternoon and draws huge crowds. I took the kids last minute and found a semi decent spot off Palafox Street. Aside from the huge quantities of cheap beads that come flying off the floats, come Moon Pies in different flavors( the one in Adeline's hand is Banana, YUCK), stuffed animals, gold coins, swords, hats, soccer balls, fanny packs(YIPPEE) and tons of other China made crap. But, the way people dive for that junk would make you think they were throwing T-bone steaks off the floats. The trumpeter man in the video below, snagged a duffel bag out from under Reece's feet that Reece was too scared to pick up. People are brutal. 
The big orange pair was Emma's pride and joy of beads. They came flying right at her and hit her in the lip. After that pain, she wasn't giving those beads up to anyone.
Adeline held onto that moon pie for about an hour and never took a single bite.
This guy drove his ATV up right behind us and played the entire parade.
1 comment:
that guy is annoying. i like the grass angel beads one with emma. i've never gotten what all the big hub-bub about moon pies is.
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