my parade got cancelled

[Guest guest]

Hi Hi everyone...

My parade got cancelled due to bad weather. We started off this morning

at nine am. with a breakfast for the seven hundred member krewe then we

got on a trolley/streetcar, and rode around the city visiting a

children's home first. The kids were waiting outside and every float,

twenty five in all, passed there and gave beads and trinkets to the

kids. This year, I did not cry. It is so hard to see those faces and

to know that they are in this home from other parishes cause they were

neglected and/or sexually abused...My daughter took it hard as she

teaches a few of the high school students from there.

I rode in the trolley...I had a poncho on as it was raining but it still

was alot of fun. There was no sun so I did not use sunscreen...anyway

the rain would have washed it off.

We may roll tomorrow but that is doubtful as there is an eighty percent

chance of rain. It was cancelled today due to tornados. If we do not

roll, I have to pick up twenty cases of beads and nine hundred pounds of

beads plus balls, and sacks and sacks of trinkets until next year...But

they are all gonna be wet...so...my blow dryer is gonna have a ton of

work to do.

But at least, I will not have to buy throws for mardi gras next year.

chippy