Mardi Gras 2008 Continued

Day 1



We drove around New Orleans for a little while looking at the damage still left from Katrina. If you have not been to New Orleans since that happened, you really should try to see it. Words can not describe how much destruction was done. We parked in some random persons front yard because that was what everyone else was doing and had to walk thirty minutes to where my friends fraternity had set up. When we got there the frat guys showed us there moving truck full of 40 kegs, a couple couches, and a couple porter potties. I started off the day challeging my friend from the frat to a chugging contest because he said he was the best in his frat. After I beat him five times in a row, he finally agreed that I was better and that ment that I could beat everyone in his frat. Bad news for me because after that everyone in the frat felt that they had to challenge me, so the rest of the day is a little blurred.

By the end of the day I ended up winning almost $200 from guys betting that they or their friend could beat me. I was not as fortunate with getting beads though. When the parades started a group of us went to the front so we could get beads so we could give them away again. The only problem was the people on the floats did not want to give a bunch of guys beads, I guess we just didnt have the winning personalities they were looking for. I even carried around one of the guys, who was probably twenty pounds heavier than I am, around on my shoulders for a good 15 min, and we still only got a handfull of beads. We stumbled back into the lake house around 2 in the morning and went right to sleep.

Mardi Gras 2008

At 6:15 p.m. on thursday of last week I got a phone call from JD, one of my best friends from Dallas, saying, "Dude throw a change of clothes in a bag and drive here now." I replied "why?" He said two words, "Mardi Gras." I replied, "Alright, I'm in." I hung up the phone, packed, and left for Dallas. JD and I have been getting into trouble together for as long as I can remember, and one of the reasons for this, is that planning ahead has never been high on either of our priority lists. When I got to Dallas, I decided to stop by my parents house to say hi before I left for New Orleans. They had no idea what was going on when I showed up, and when I told them that JD and I were about to leave for New Orleans the only thing they said was, "You are telling me that you just drove three and a half hours north so you could to drive eight hours southeast?" As soon as I heard that I knew that the trip was an awesome idea.

During the drive Jd informed me that there was actually some kind of a plan. Two of our Dallas friends, who are in an LSU Frat, were going to stay in New Orleans at one of their Frat brother's lake houses, and that we were going to stay with them. I was a little suprised that he had thought that far ahead, but I was glad we were not going to be sleeping in the car. We finally got to the lake house just as everyone was getting up and getting ready to start partying.

English 1320

So as far as I can tell all we are supposed to do is write about what ever is on our minds at the time that we sit down in front of the computer. The thing that is on my mind right now is how much different your life would be if your born into a famous family. What made me think about it was that I saw Hulk Hogan at Mardi Gras last weekend and i remember seeing him on one of those celebrity family reality shows.

I personly don't think I would have much of a problem being born famous, but at the same time I would imagine being in the public spot light for your entire life would make it impossible to live a normal life. If you were famous enough to have a face that everyone knows, you would probably get alot of free stuff, which would be awesome, but you also would not be able to get away with anything. It's something to think about.