….. swabbing the decks here….. not too bad outside this morning…. yesterday’s parade was the G-rated family parade, where everyone (about 200,000) people bring their small children and pirates give loads of beads especially for the youngsters……
….. next Saturday is the BIG main parade …… about 400-500,000 people will pass through my neighborhood, and the party goes all day from 10am to midnight! ending just across the bridge to downtown (which means they must all come back through my neighborhood to get to their rides home) …. the City provides ‘park & ride’, but still all must pass bye us….. most is foot traffic, where people have parked their cars all through out the South Tampa/Hyde Park neighborhoods….
….. I will be roping off my yard, and monitoring ‘wayward’ activity from my porch with a hose….. and since we can’t go anywhere, we just ‘join the fun’, usually hosting friends, cooking hot dogs & brats, and sipping grogg and ale all day…… the local radio stations publish their ‘Gasparilla’ soundtracks, so the whole neighborhood parties outside on their porches and in the street….. it’s a fun time!
….. I may be a bit bleary-eyed the next morning though! LOL