Today is Saturday in the Park - our annual free concert that draws thousands and thousands and thousands. It started at noon. Tonight's headliners are Chuck Berry and the Neville Brothers. From our annual Mardi Gras on Thursday, to the Big Parade last night to SITP, it's all been atribute to New Orleans and our sister city of Lake Charles. We ran into some of the Lake Charles Crewe de Charlie Sioux (a combo of Lake Charles and Sioux City)
They were so funny. On the drive up from Lake Charles, they were in a van with dark tinted windows and paper tags. You really couldn't see the paper tags. In Arkansas they got pulled over because of the tags, and the story was quite dramatic and ended with -"you can go - it took us awhile to bring up the Louisiana data base, it's been under water"
Anyway, we went outside and there was their van. Every window was painted with Mardi Gras stuff and things like "We're here and we're ready to party" LOL and they wonder why they were stopped.