re: Red Dress Run: Check in thread

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eta: There's going to be an excessive heat warning this weekend so plan accordingly. We're talking actual air temps of 97 with feels like temps 110+.

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The time I spent outside in the sun last year was minimal. Once the morning is over and you're just drinking, you're in bars. Or at least I was

ETA: When y'all talk about too touristy, you talking about RDR or FQ Fest?
Because the most "touristy" I find that RDR gets is that everyone comes in from BR for it -- which isn't exactly touristy. The hotels are still dirt cheap right now; they're not getting a plethora of tourists.

FQ Fest, on the other hand, is a nightmare.

Pretty much.

Here are a few things first timer RDRers need to understand:
1) You will lose people you arrived with;
2) It takes twenty minutes to go four blocks;
3) Convince at least one person to bring a Camelbak full of water;
4) Don't eat Krystal burger and opt for Popeye's instead;
5) It's

So I'm guessing 15 to 20k came out to party

I didn't experience a problem with crowds last year But I didn't hang around the Quarter during the day. By lunch, we were in JAX (which was crowded but a friend was the manager, so we had the private room upstairs overlooking the place -- I feel like a douche even saying that statement). By early afternoon, we were at Barcadia. Moved to Lucy's in the evening. And then Gold Mine late night.

Now WHITE LINEN -- I've been stuck in that. Never even technically have gone to the event, but it was going on one weekend when I was trying to meet a friend at Hilton Riverside. It was also MechaCon. Drove around for at LEAST an hour and a half trying to find parking. It was horrible.

Friend screamed at me in the middle of Harrah's when I finally arrived because he thought I was being a flake when really he had no idea what was going on out there and how difficult it was for me to get to him.

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I fully expect to be passed out before it gets dark

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One reason I like RDR. Usually in bed fast asleep at 5pm Doesnt ruin my Sunday

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But I didn't hang around the Quarter during the day. By lunch, we were in JAX (which was crowded but a friend was the manager, so we had the private room upstairs overlooking the place -- I feel like a douche even saying that statement). By early afternoon, we were at Barcadia. Moved to Lucy's in the evening. And then Gold Mine late night.

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So what you are saying is you wore a red dress, and hung out in NOLA all day. You didn't do the RDR. That's fine, and something a group of friends can get together and do anytime (outside of the cross-dressing), but that's not really doing the run. Last time I did it, it was a pain to get to the beer trucks and food. People were hanging outside of the area because there just wasn't enough room. When you started the "run", you got to the bars and they were already filled with people who had no intention of actually participating. It's become so big that it's not even it's own thing anymore. I'm not knocking people for doing that. Just saying that's what people mean when they say it's not the same.

Wait what? I always just register to races and don't run them. Even ones that don't include alcohol. I do Sleep for the Cure every year. And then I'll go out there and eat some jambalaya and whatnot when the race is over.

I don't run. Have you even seen me post here? LL do exercise? No.

My point was that the bars I went to last year were not crowded. They had plenty of people -- but they were not insane or hard to move or anything, with the exception of JAX, but I didn't have to deal with it there.

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24 hours! See y'all fools in the park tomorrow.