Mardi Gras 2010

So Mardi Gras was two days ago, and wow, did it ever sneak up on me. It was relatively early this year, and what with the Superbowl and all, it just came and went really fast. But we managed to have fun…

It was really cold late last week, so I didn’t make it to any parades until Saturday morning. I took the boys to see the day parades with Ren and her family. It was a gorgeous day! Kind of chilly, so I put the boys’ Mardi Gras shirts on over their sweatshirts. They looked like Sta-Puft Marshmallows.

(I wasn’t original this year. Last year, I also made them shirts that said “This One”, “That One”, and “The Other One”. Next year I’ll try to think of something new.) My, how they’ve grown!

One fun thing was that we were in the same location to watch the parade this year as last year, and a few people came up to me and said they remembered the boys from last year. One woman took a picture of them to send to her 55 year old triplet brothers!

On Sunday, I decided to get out of Dodge and took the boys to spend the night at Aunt Renny’s house. Miles especially looooves Renny, which I suppose is because he knows she’ll be his mother-in-law one day. Sweet boy.

Renny’s house is fun because she feeds them waffles with syrup (she is so brave) and has fun toys for them to play with.

I headed back to town Monday evening, and on Fat Tuesday, we took the boys to see the big parades. We got there too late to get a good spot for Zulu, so we went and staked out a spot for Rex and waited a couple of hours for it to start. Fortunately, the boys had an entire pack of wipes to occupy themselves with…

Finally, the parade came by, and we all got some good loot.

And that was our Mardi Gras. The end!

02/17/10

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Daddy reading to Miles tonight. I got a new Canon 40D (well, new to me – it was used) today and I was just playing around with it. It has a lot more bells and whistles than my old camera (a Digital Rebel from the olden days.)

02/16/10

02/16/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

Miles gets his Mardi Gras on.

02/15/10

02/15/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

Oliver, feeding Ernie some of his milk. Sweet boy!

02/14/10

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Linus wears Daddy’s cap. At the pub.

02/13/10

02/13/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

It has to be said, one of the best things about having triplets is all the loot you get at Mardi Gras. The boys got a ton of stuffed animals (which are highly sought-after) at the parade today and Oliver was trying to hold them all.

02/12/10

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The many faces of Miles. The child is such a ham!

(Is this cheating since it’s really six pictures? Who cares?)

I can remember too many times in school (well, and in life) being called out for making funny faces at inappropriate times. Looks like someone takes after me! (Yes, I’d be world’s worst poker player.)

02/11/10

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“Ni-ni Daddy!”

Awwww, so sweet! That’s Linus saying goodnight to Daddy.

Oh yeah.

I signed up to do another half-marathon.

At the end of the month.

(I am absolutely not going back to my entries in early November to see how much pain I was in after the last one.)

Guess I should hit the gym after work today, eh?

02/10/10

02/10/10, originally uploaded by pyjammy.

Another motion picture for you. This one of my little dancer, Miles. He’s as good a dancer as his Mommy!

Bigger than Mardi Gras

So yesterday was the Saints’ victory parade.

It was, quite simply, mind-boggling. The number of people…it was like every Mardi Gras parade rolled into one. Insane. All I can say is, thank god my office was on the parade route, because we had a nice warm place to hang out before (and, as it turned out, during) the parade.

Let’s see if I can give you an idea of the number of people.

Here’s the view from my office window at 3:30. (The parade started at 5:00.)

At 3:45:

And at 4:30:

George was across the river at the pub, and the number of people trying to get on the ferry to cross the river was insane. I have never, ever, in all of my days living in Algiers Point (which is located directly across the river from the French Quarter) seen a line for the ferry like this.

Oh, what? You don’t see the people? Here, check out the highlighted part. And this crowd was 3-deep and on both sides of the ferry terminal.

So yeah, that should give you an idea of the scale of the crowd. The parade itself wasn’t that big, by Mardi Gras standards. I think seven floats and as many marching bands.

At my office, we had a DVD player for the kids and a Wii for everyone to play, to pass the time before the parade came by. There was also, of course, lots of food.