Happy Mardi Gras!

A few weekends ago we attended our second Mardi Gras parade. We had so much fun last year (despite the frigid weather) that we had to do it again. We had two reserved spots along Kings Hwy so we weren't in a hurry to get down to the area too early. We did make it down there around 2ish and brought along our lawn chairs, BBQ pit, beads, Abby's big wheel bike and of course lots of food. Here's a look at our spot! We mingled with our neighbors and loved watching all the people and their Mardi Gras attire! And oh yes, that is a Port A Jon!! We came prepared this year! So worth the money and we could of made some serious $$ if we allowed others to use it!

Now what's a parade without COTTON CANDY!!

Here we are with our beads we brought from home. Seth was snoozing away otherwise I would of been holding him.

This was my inlaws first time attening the Mardi Gras parade. They loved it and we hope to make it an annual tradition now!

Abby was getting a bit ansy waiting for the parade so we pulled out the DVD player. That has been a lifesaver many a times! Notice how dirty her feet are too! Geez, who knew that playing in the bed of the truck would get her feet so darn dirty! LOL

And of course Baby Seth had to have his own beads! Abby picked these out for him. :)

Now it was time to bring out her Big Wheel and go for a ride. We usually wait until they shut down the streets to do this. She had a blast and went down the street several times!

While waiting for the parade to start Abby decided to play "down the hill" with a friend.

We were having a blast and took our official Mardi Gras photo as a family of four! Little Seth was snoozing away in my Bjorn! :)

I was hoping to get a good pic of the Centaur logo but apparently some chick got in the way...grrr. Otherwise it would of came out perfect!

Abby caught a huge catepillar from one of the floats. She absolutely loves that thing! He's about as tall as she is and she named him Rainbow!

More floats! There were 40 in all! I know, that was alot and it nearly took 2 1/2 hours for the parade to pass by! Since we were at the tail end of the parade it took nearly 3 hours for it to get to us! Yes, I know what you are thinking...that's already 5 1/2 hours. Well figure in our tailgating party, which started around 2ish, and well you get it...we had a LONG day but it was fun!

Poor Abby was getting really tired and Seth was such a trooper. Shortly after I took this picture Abby was ready to lay down in the truck and go to sleep!
Needless to say, she didn't fall asleep right away but kept peeking out of the truck to see the floats. I was inside with her and with all the bead falling into the bed of the truck and hitting the roof there was no way we could fall asleep! Eventually she did, missing the last two floats. She was soooo tired.

This pic was taken the following day. Abby sorted all her beads by color!! She sure did hit the jackpot! Now what to do with all these beads!