Thursday, February 8, 2007

toga man with the alligator and the crawfish

since tomorrow is "hercules day"... i thought i would share this with you fine folks. (hercules has always been my favorite parade and this year will be matt's second year riding so i'm super excited). plus, his family is down for the weekend (some have never experienced mardi gras, and others of them are now insanely addicted from their last-year's experience), so we're gonna show them a good time.

this past weekend, i attended a pre-tableau party (i guess that's what it's called) for the krewe of hercules. it was at the quality inn here in houma. they open up the whole inside part of the hotel to these bunch of lieunatics (best way to describe them really).. there's a band, a pool, a 1.5 foot high wooden platform square thing in the middle of the floor for people to dance on and drunk people to trip on. there was even a man doing the alligator on that box and he dumped his drink all over himself... and for those of you who have never experienced what we call "the alligator"... basically all it is is someone humping the floor. i've never actually done it myself, but i've seen it hundreds of times. we had lots of fun making faces through the hotel room window when people walked by us.

the next night was the hercules tableau and ball thing... men dress up in skirts and tights and feathers... and everyone gets all perty and dances around like drunk fools. too bad i got there a half hour before it ended. i had to shoot a wedding and then my bro dustin locked his keys in his car ... so that delayed us a bit. anyway, here's some shots from the weekend.

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me and matt being ourselves


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THIS is what he does.. (see what i put up with?)


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me and brandi dancing (i know it goes the other way, i just like it better like this)


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us, the retards


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fun with the popo.


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i will go to any lengths to get in your pictures, so watch out.


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these guys had no idea what happened here.. (look at this one closely)


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nothing like a little window shopping to pass the time.


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i think this thing was called a peppermint patty. i had no idea what was happening they just told me to sit my hiney down and then everybody gathered around and started taking pictures. really kinda freaked me out. first the whip cream, then the chocolate syrup, followed by some peppermint schnapps, swish around lightly.... then down the hatch. it was actually pretty good.


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brandi, me, and matt (see, he really is capable of making a normal face .... even though he has to be threatened first)


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of course... again.. there is ALWAYS time for self portraits.


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me, brandi, and my brother dustin at the hercules tableau ball thing.


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matt and me at the hercules tableau ball thing (that's his costume for the float... pretty snazzy eh?... CHICKENS?! did someone order CHICKENS?!)



so, here's to hoping matt has a great ride day tomorrow.... and, of course, that he sees us on the parade route.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That was a great weekend! Gee, wonder where you got some of those pics from???? Thief.......!

misty mac said...

yes yes y'all.. those last two photos were stolen from my dear friend brandi. and most of the others were taken by matt.. so, there. i apologize for not giving proper photo credit of the point-and-shoots. please forgive me.