When in Rome do as the romans. When in Louisiana go to a Mardi Gras parade. Right. We went to Kaplan to see a small town Mardi Gras, no crowds or shootings for us. Mardi Gras is a holiday in Louisiana, everything is closed.
The people watching before the parade was almost as good as the parade. These little girls were giving away free King Cake. King cake is Mardi gras cake, like a big sweet roll with a plastic baby in it. The person who gets the baby gives next years party. These girls were looking for the Party Gras and not very happy. There were a couple of vendors selling souvenirs and curios.
Sue with an unidentified reveler, mardi gras chickens on a chicken restaurant float. We never did figure out what float this black, double decker one was. We saw them long before the parade driving around, drinking, hooting, and waving. The guys on top are all wearing camo.
Krewe Chic-a-la-pie Mardi Gras parade in Kaplan, no parade is complete without the marching high school band and emergency equipment lights and siren, or the beauty queens. The top royalty are the king and queen of the parade, the middle I am not sure what she is queen of, but she was first in the parade, below her are the beauty queens from Abbeville and Erath.
A couple of the floats- Got Grass, hunting club, and of course the dentist. This young hard body was on the end of the Premier Farm and Ranch supply float. The guy next to him is dressed as a hot dog.
Gumbo for lunch. Are we tourists or what?? We gave up catching beads, they were all throwing them-and candy, toys, footballs, beer cozy’s. After the parade we gave the beads to some young girls collecting them. Great parade.
Cypress and wild flowers seen on my after parade bike ride. A crawfish farm. The red things are the traps. In the winter they grow rice in the same fields. Crawfish, rice, sugar cane and seafood are the products of this area.
Pieces that will eventually be part of my next masterpiece.
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