Lafayette fails

this weekend i witnessed my first Lafayette Parade that had nothing to do with homecoming at UL. and in all my years i have never seen such a Parade fail so hard.

ill start off with the good (or lack thereof)
1: they threw stuff. yea i know kinda sad for a good thing but hayy its a parade ur supposed to throw stuffs.

2:thats about it

the bad

1:Krewe of Rio????? 9 times out of 10 parades are named after Greek or Roman gods like Bacchus, Orpheus, Endymion, Caesar, Etc. of course there are a few exceptions Mid-City Shangri-la, and the ones named after organizations such as the Elks of Orleans or Jeffersonians. but RIO??? and its Latin themed!!! no No NO!!!! just fail.

2: baracades. ok i know most neworleans parades have baracades some where along the route like around Lee circle, the begining of Endymion where they have the Samedi Gras (fat sautrday) concert. ok thats fine but theres no baracades along st.charles and parts of canal. but thie parade not only had baracades along the whole route they put them up a day and a half early!! the parade wasnt until saturday night!!! so everyone was inconvenienced all day friday and saturday until after the parade. new orleans usually just puts neat little stacks of baracades out every hundred feet or so so that way a crew can come out and place them a few hours before the parade.

3: clean up. ok some parades usually dont clean up until a few hours after the parade is over (chalmette parades some metairie parades) but this was just ridiculous it was an hour or so after the parade and they started to clean up and just infront of the Cafe where i was watching the parade it took them a good half an hour to clean up a little block and a half long spot. we left the cafe at about 11:30  pm after we cleaned up from the meriwether concert and they had only gotten down to Lewis street which is about 5-6 blocks away from cafe. uggh had to take back roads to get to B-dubs. annoying.

4: the floats. this parade looked like a cross between the truck parades, a chalmette parade and the Irish-Italian parades in new orleans. ok i know that there probably arent that many highschool or elementary school bands to be put in between every float but at least try. they could have tried to follow the 2-3 floats then  a band 2-3 floats then a band, repeat. and heck throw in a little street car with a band in it somewhere in there too. but no it was float, band, 7 floats, band, 5 floats, band, 10 floats. every float had their own sound system so on one float that was past you u hear aerosmith the one right infront of you is Ke$ha and the one coming after the one infront of you is blaring some random cajun song (probably dont step on my toot toot or she's  a Vibrator. yes these are actual names of songs)  just so much music overload. it was like the Irish-Italian parades in Metairie.

5 the bands. o the bands they were just pathetic, from what i could see from cafe they were very very unorganized. some of them werent even in straight lines. yea just... yea.

o well i guess no one can do parades like New Orleans can. i think ill stick to my Metairie parades, Chalmette parades Endymion, Bacchus, Orpheus, Zulu and Rex. im sad im going to miss them this year but im super pumped to be doin God's work in Commerce, Texas!!! leaving in 4 days!!!
GEAUX LIONS!!!!! lol

til next blog!!