Spanish Town Parade

This weekend I experienced my first "real" Mardi Gras Parade in "The Rouge." It was a gorgeous day and got a slight sunburn, but thats alright! I came away with 89 strands of beads and only had to flash the chest once...ok no I didn't but I wanted to! I figured out that you need two things if you want to get lots of beads (my beads were literally dumped on my head, skewing the results). So what is it that you need to get plentiful supplies of beads? 1.) Clevage, lots and lots of clevage, and 2.) a small cute kid sitting on your shoulders. So there you go! Be sure to check out more photos here.














Cheers!

Krew of Mutts

Today was the annual Canes Krew of Mutts parade that was downtown in "The Rouge." Basically every dog owner in "The Rouge" brought their dogs out (in their best costumes) and watched the parade. It was a good time as Kelly, Allen, Matt, Kim and I laughed and looked on as the dogs screamed...BEADS, I WANT BEADS!!

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Lets do the Mambo Shuffle

I woke up today with the sole goal of going to do a 9-mile run with the running group I have been running with as of late. The plan was to head from a common meeting local, run downtown to the starting line of the Mardi Gras Mambo 10k, run with the competitors for 3 miles and loop in. My friend Brennan was running the whole race and I told him I would help pace him through the first three miles or so. Well I ended up running the whole thing with him, pacing him to a 3rd place finish in the 20-24 age group at around 39 minutes for the 10 (6:18 pace for you per mile fans). I felt really good, Brennan was a little stiff but it was a cool moist morning, so perfect for running. Field was fairly stacked for "The Rouge" as the winning time came in at around 31 minutes or so (sub 5-5:00 minute pace),pretty impressive and not a bad way to make $500.

Oh yea...Maria (the Hot Russian) Sharapova won the woman's Australian Open. :-)