Mandeville Parades

No. This is it.

Then after, we all go home and do it in the missionary position.

Sometimes our wives are awake,......usually not.

My problem isn't the size or amount of throws. It's the lack of attention to detail and the sloppy delivery

Northshore parades have gone downhill big time. They're nothing like what they used to be... Especially Orpheus.

20 -30 years ago Orpheus was a good parade.

I can vouch.

My understanding was that there was some questionable financial practices that killed it for a couple years.

Is the the krewe chad504boy was the queen of a few years ago?

Yup, they were always good and packed up until I left in 02

But I thought Mandeville was the greatest city in the world, much better than NOLA?

Pretty much all the suburban parades suck now. Everyone wants to ride in the city. So they northshore, metry, etc parades just take whoever wants to pay. If they enforced rules they would have to kick out so many people that they would no longer have enough to roll.

My wife wanted to go to Dionysus this year. She was telling me all about how she remembered from her childhood how awesome of a parade it was. We always to the Carrollton, et al parades on the first Sunday. Finally I said ok, this year, we will go.

Turrible. 14 floats pulled by trucks, most of which had maybe 3-4 people on a side. She was stunned... she said it maybe 1/5 of what it used to be.

Last night was great family atmosphere, if that is your thing. The Eve parade is indeed better than present day Orpheus, but it is also on the first weekend of Mardi Gras festivities. A lot of people are either out of town with kids or in the city this weekend.

My group had 2 four years olds, a three year old, and a five month old. All of the kids had a blast, none of them got run over or hurt in any way, none of them cried for any reason, and I drank a lot of beer before and during the parade. Anything else on top of that was lagniappe.