new orleans and mardi gras, 2009

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March 1st 2009

Published: March 24th 2009

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Peripatetic RPh

louisiana eatin'

this is the way to celebrate the 50th birthday!! my uncles' 50th.

another fantastic mardi gras spent with family and friends.

i have been properly chastised for not mentioning strongly enough my Figarola family down in the 'big easy'. so i mention them now and with great affection because it would not be mardi gras without them, my extended family. please see the photos of the figarola clan (who are always so generous and welcoming when i arrive and join them in the home of the wonderful matriarch-ms. jackie) and some shots of mardi gras 2009. sadly i don't have photos of other old friends, family nor of my new friends as they weren't taken or they didn't arrive as planned via email.

as always we had a great time eating(see the only photo of my uncles' birhtday party to come out), parading and sometimes drinking (ah-hemm).

also know that i am plagued because of the 2 youngest of said clan. i parked my new airstream home at their home a week or so after mardi gras where they brow-beat me until i watched madagascar 2 with them. it was full of great laughs. the problem now is that i can't get out of my head (and it has been

mardi gras tree

mardi gras decorations abound!

a couple of weeks) the "i like 'em chunky, so thick and plumpy" song. please get it out!

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magnificent treelined st. charles

s'trolling' the streets

checking out the views on our way for drink, with me are teresa(sc), joseph and john behind the lens. by the by thanks for the great photos that follow.

lots of waiting

much time is spent on the parade route waiting for the floats. that's ok as that is when the party is happening.

my lovely Figarola 'non italian' family

sorry john i couldn't resist the jab! i love ya man! (he is 40 sumthin' and just discovered his "roots".

the matriarch

ms. jackie, john's mum, with ashley and boyfriend. can these kids stop growing up so that i don't realize i am growing up too.

didn't know what she was getting

contemplating

i tried and tried to get young jonathan to scratch my head as if i was perplexed. it didn't work well but the laughs were cleansing. wow is that deep or what?