I thought I had already shared this with you, so here goes a little late. The Sunday before St. Patrick's Day I went to one of the three area parades in New Orleans. This one actually in Metairie, LA. Not far from the Cemeteries stop on the trolly from New Orleans it was scheduled to start at noon. The truth of it was it got to where I was a little after 3P. I found out several things during my wait, other than not to be early next time. That the parade is an almost whole community event, people brought tents, grills, and lots of beer. Very few marching bands, each float represents a different organization, and unlike Midwest parades where they throw out handfuls of candy, for St. Patrick's Day these floats throw out beads, cabbages, carrots, potatoes, ramen noodles, flowers, even cloves of garlic, and other small trinkets. People do not sit on the sides and cheer, they stand within inches of the passing floats and grab for the goodies. It was a unique experience and if you were planning on making corn beef and cabbage you could get most of your meal at the parade.
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| beads and flowers were not the only thing the gentlemen were giving out. |
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| get a flower give a kiss...some people were more into this than others |
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| and here comes another veggie wagon...but if you don't catch the carrots they will hurt |
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