mardi gras is the shittttttttttt
hey everybody! i just got back from new orleans yesterday. as usual, IRA trips make you try to see how far you can go and still survive! i got 11 hrs of sleep the whole weekend, drank too much, and smoked way too much. we left boone on wednesday night/thursday morning at 2:30 am and drove to charlotte to fly to New Orleans. when we got there, we had to go straight to conference, dressed up. then we went to conference and shala and i decided it was too lame, so we all went to Bourban Street to play! Me and Jordan did the whole mardi gras thing and got a TON of beads! i got one strand that each bead is about the size of a baseball, a glow in the dark one, and one that has mardi gras masks on it. jenn, shala, and i went bar hopping and clubbing all night and got rediculously drunk. the last club, utopia, was outside and had a fountain with flames in it!
the next day we all went to a restaurant called the palace, and it seriously had the best food ive ever eaten! everyone got 3 course dinners, and we had wine and banana foster made in front of us! while we were eating, there was a mardi gras parade and we could see it from our table. then all of us went to the ritz and listened to jazz music and danced and drank. it was so fun! that night renee, penny, and jenn went to harrahs and won $300 playing craps till 5 am!
the last day, everyone skipped conference (hahaha, that was way better than just me and shala skipping) and we all went out all over new orleans together. my group went to the coolest restaurant and hung out for like 2 hrs there. then we went shopping at urban outfitters and this body shop called lush. it had all this fancy shampoo and soap and stuff, and me and jordan were so dumb, and we tried to put everything in water and taste it, rebekah was like stoppppppppppp (its her dream store). then we sat at cafe du monde and watched the sun set and ate beignets. then a small parade passed by with all these cool drums and trumpets, so we danced around and followed the parade for 2 miles! the went down royal st and looked at all the art galleries. by then it was 7:30 and we were gonna go back to the hotel and chill, but when we got there, we drank for a while till everyone was there and then we stayed up all night drinking till we our plane left at 7 am. it was definitely an experience going through airport security drunk with all these mardi gras beads!!!!
the weirdest thing about the whole weekend was the cats, there are cats everywhere, and the parks had plates of cat food! there was one cat on bourban st that was so cool. it had a hat on and mardi gras beads and it was on leash, but it was so chill and just walked around. the second night i saw the cat again and it was sitting in a baby stroller while its owner sold beer on the st! it was so crazy/awesome
good times:
~BAM!!
~penny to renee: is she talking? like is she actually saying anything or just moving her mouth?
~me losing never have i ever EVERY time....is it really losing though?
~finding out what you really have to do to get a boah...so not what we did
~all the chairs trying to hunt me and shala down for skipping, and failing miserably
~rebekah: do you want a manhattan? (in the creepiest man voice ever)
~jordan: shala, dont show your tits, lindsay, dont show your tits on camera
~trying to sell andrew in a liquer store
~wanting to kidnap a cat
~me trying to eat seafood everyday, and never liking it
~somehow sleeping sitting up in the plane....i looked dead
~jenn waking me up in the middle of the night to tell shala to stop snoring "shut the FUCK up!!"
~andy ALWAYS wondering off
~penny: yall are so cute! renee: did you call them sexy?!
~DAWN!
~almost taking our shrimp leftovers to the aquarium
~renee telling as us we leave the ritz: try to act sober around the rich people, yall can be normal in the elevator
~shala and jordan always taking forever to get ready
~"deflowering" nathan
~Bangladesh is a bitch and Iran is NOT hott
~Slovakia asking rebekah out in a diplomatic way (moderate his caucus...)
it was a fun weekend!!!!
the next day we all went to a restaurant called the palace, and it seriously had the best food ive ever eaten! everyone got 3 course dinners, and we had wine and banana foster made in front of us! while we were eating, there was a mardi gras parade and we could see it from our table. then all of us went to the ritz and listened to jazz music and danced and drank. it was so fun! that night renee, penny, and jenn went to harrahs and won $300 playing craps till 5 am!
the last day, everyone skipped conference (hahaha, that was way better than just me and shala skipping) and we all went out all over new orleans together. my group went to the coolest restaurant and hung out for like 2 hrs there. then we went shopping at urban outfitters and this body shop called lush. it had all this fancy shampoo and soap and stuff, and me and jordan were so dumb, and we tried to put everything in water and taste it, rebekah was like stoppppppppppp (its her dream store). then we sat at cafe du monde and watched the sun set and ate beignets. then a small parade passed by with all these cool drums and trumpets, so we danced around and followed the parade for 2 miles! the went down royal st and looked at all the art galleries. by then it was 7:30 and we were gonna go back to the hotel and chill, but when we got there, we drank for a while till everyone was there and then we stayed up all night drinking till we our plane left at 7 am. it was definitely an experience going through airport security drunk with all these mardi gras beads!!!!
the weirdest thing about the whole weekend was the cats, there are cats everywhere, and the parks had plates of cat food! there was one cat on bourban st that was so cool. it had a hat on and mardi gras beads and it was on leash, but it was so chill and just walked around. the second night i saw the cat again and it was sitting in a baby stroller while its owner sold beer on the st! it was so crazy/awesome
good times:
~BAM!!
~penny to renee: is she talking? like is she actually saying anything or just moving her mouth?
~me losing never have i ever EVERY time....is it really losing though?
~finding out what you really have to do to get a boah...so not what we did
~all the chairs trying to hunt me and shala down for skipping, and failing miserably
~rebekah: do you want a manhattan? (in the creepiest man voice ever)
~jordan: shala, dont show your tits, lindsay, dont show your tits on camera
~trying to sell andrew in a liquer store
~wanting to kidnap a cat
~me trying to eat seafood everyday, and never liking it
~somehow sleeping sitting up in the plane....i looked dead
~jenn waking me up in the middle of the night to tell shala to stop snoring "shut the FUCK up!!"
~andy ALWAYS wondering off
~penny: yall are so cute! renee: did you call them sexy?!
~DAWN!
~almost taking our shrimp leftovers to the aquarium
~renee telling as us we leave the ritz: try to act sober around the rich people, yall can be normal in the elevator
~shala and jordan always taking forever to get ready
~"deflowering" nathan
~Bangladesh is a bitch and Iran is NOT hott
~Slovakia asking rebekah out in a diplomatic way (moderate his caucus...)
it was a fun weekend!!!!