The Return to Frenchman aka Sunday

Sunday started off with Quartermaster. That is, ordering delivery while still laying on a couch. Eating right away, I was able to feel normal extremely quickly. I updated this blog I believe, although I am still a few days behind on my recap. Joey and Minka went to work, and eventually Paul and I decided let’s get out of the house and go see a couple parades!

We went to watch some of Bacchus which had already started. I didn’t catch too much since I was in a really bad spot for throws. It was annoying me slightly, but instead of wanting to leave I wanted to wait till it was done in case I could get a little more. I never would have imagined trying to catch beads could be addicting, but it is. Paul wanted to go to the goth parade, so he took off and I would meet him after this big parade.



I left to meet him and ran into Giles from the hostel walking down the street looking confused. I invited him along for the hunt for Paul! He came with me to Flanigans, where Paul had apparently found a parade. Turns out he accidentally followed the wrong one, and these looked more like circus/Victorian folk. It was amazing, we had to go right through the middle of it.

To explain what this is a little more, there are the big float/marching band parades that usually come from uptown down to canal, then there are marching parades (sometimes without a permit type of thing – anyone can create a renegade group of people in costumes and march around ;) mostly around the French Quarter and the Mariny. These are still Krewes, but they are less formal (ie. Krewe de Poo, Krewe de Doom), don’t really do the bead thing, and it’s more locally organized. Closest thing to this in van is the Parade of Lost Souls, but it’s still different than that.

Anyhow, we find Paul and go in for a beer at the pub. Giles and I end up talking a lot and drink our whole beer there, missing when the parade left. I didn’t know where it was going, but we decided to walk down the street it was on before (Chartres) towards Frenchman. Once again I end up on Frenchman. Ran into the same people from the night before… Saw Saleem around, Ben, etc.

I ended up at a burrito stand then at 13, but again the food makes me sleepy. So that was the end of that night.