Mardi Gras 2008!

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posted Sunday, 24 February 2008

It was a beautiful (and not frozen!) Saturday afternoon, 2/23/08, for the 13th annual Mardi Gras Parade in downtown Burlington, Vermont. The parade, sponsored by Magic Hat Brewery, was a benefit for the Women's Rape Crisis Center. We, the House of LeMay, appeared/attended at our 9th parade. This year we didn't go as ourselves, we were a 6 pack of your favorite Magic Hat beers!!!

Fat Angel Lucky Kat

Circus Boy Hocus Pocus

Mother Logger Lager Number 9

This is Mother Logger getting out of the trunk.

We didn't have room in the car for her and her skirt.

Before the Parade...

Who would believe that one of the first people we would run into

would be Magic Hat founder and head guy Alan Newman!!!

And why did the Girls from SoCo think we'd like their product?

We used to have a float in the parade, but decided it was much more fun (for us) to walk around and meet people. But that didn't stop us from going to the Hood Plant parking lot where the parade begins.

Had to stop by our friends at the Seven Days Seven Ring Circus float.

First we saw Don as gorilla food (a banana with coco-nuts?).

Then we saw Colby (a Circus Boy himself!) and Rick (the gorilla!).

Mother Logger Lager in need of a Lyin' Lion Tamer?

Some may think it takes balls to do what we do... but what if you

are Champ, the mascot for the Vermont Lake Monsters?

Our good friends Jen (of Jen derNeutral - our Dutch cousin fame)

and Jack (of our Spirits of the Tower night)

were on the Lyric Theatre Company float that was promoting

their upcoming production of Beauty and the Beast (not pictured!).

Moving along, we stopped at a house party... thanks, Wendy!

And YES, we were invited!!! We'll come to your party too, just ask!

We saw a bunch of folks from the Burlington Free Press and also

our buddy Carlos of SEABA (South End Arts & Business Association).

And, if we're downtown, we HAVE to stop by Old Gold!!!

This is where (wear?) we picked up a LOT of our accessories

for our outfits.

We ran into Derrick - a Magic Hat sales rep.

The Parade

We gotta admit, we didn't see much of the parade. We found ourselves in Red Square when it was parade time - and never found our way out to Church Street. But we weren't the only ones!!! If you want to see pictures of more floats, we'll add a link later on. If you want to see what happened in Red Square, scroll on!