Mardi Gras 2011

We know its been over a month since Mardi Gras, but its taken us just that long to recover and work up the nerve to tackle the project of going through all our random video clips. For those of you who couldn’t make it down, here is a little peek at the parades from the historic Garden District.

First Night of Utter Freedom

If it wasn’t for the fact that I was expecting people to come look at our apartment that morning I don’t know how I would have gotten out of bed. It was a Wednesday and the only alarm going off was the small voice in the back corner of my mind. It was reminding me that I needed to clean the place up. That little voice and it’s constant nagging finally got my lethargic body up and moving, albeit slowly. It ended up that nobody showed up to look at the apartment but at least I got a head start on that ridiculously long cleaning list that the landlords gave me when I turned in my notice to vacate. It actually says “polish to a shine!”

The rest of the afternoon was spent playing phone tag with the bank. I had paid for the car almost a week ago and NEEDED the title ASAP! I had sold the car over a week ago as well and was leaving the state in four days! Needless to say the girl who bought the car was on pins and needles and she stayed in touch. My phone beeped constantly as we became text-buddies of sort. She was teetering between trusting me and panicked that I was scamming her somehow. My banker must have told his co-workers how I was stalking him as when he was out one day I was put on hold, hung up, and then put on hold again-this time for 15min before the someone told me they couldn’t do anything more and hung up. I was about to declare war by the time John came home. He came bouncing through the front door bursting with excitement. He had just finished his last day of work and the future ahead was looking bright to him that afternoon. The enthusiasm was infectious and I decided to call a cease fire with the bank till the next morning and poured a glass of wine for the both of us. We cooked the last remaining items in our pantry, luckily we had enough for a great pasta dinner, and drank our wine from milk glasses (we had already packed our “nice” stuff away). We spent several hours enjoying the nice weather and doing little chores around the apartment. Then around 9:30 when normally we would be winding down we realized we didn’t have to! By now our apartment has no couch, TV, and our computer was on the floor, needless to say there was nothing really to do. We jumped out our normal stupor of a Wednesday night routine and headed down town. Having looked online for anything that might be going on and not finding any useful info (Lincoln needs a good mini-city nightlife guide…the one I found hadn’t been updated since 2007!) we decided to check out the famous Zoo Bar. (more…)