In the category of I couldn’t have said it better myself
I read this post by a friend/blogger and I could not have said it better myself. We live right here near the parade route for Endymion but I would never invite anyone over for a parade that I don’t go to myself. The crowds are the worst part of the parade – however they have come to be, whether it is from the suburbs (but that doesn’t make sense because when I have gone to Metairie for parades I’ve never encountered the same), whether they are from Baton Rouge (who hosted a much beleaguered New Orleans crowd that evacuated during 2005 and so we owe them special thanks), or who these people are but it is this crowd that makes the experience of Endymion the WORST in all of Mardi Gras.
The only thing I can say is this, years ago, many years ago, my brother was admitted to Endymion, a Jew riding a top a horse when Jews were never allowed in before, and this year, for the first time in history, a black king is ruling over the Krewe of Endymion. So I don’t want to hold it against the Krewe or the parade, but really, the people who go to this parade are bottom of the barrel.