It's TUESDAY, but yesterday was not only Monday, it was ST PATRICK'S DAY!  Holy Cow - New Orleans, the French Quarter and a National Holiday all rolled into one day!  It's almost too much to handle.  The key word being, "almost."  Imagine drunk New Orleans partiers that are also Irish!  Oh yeah, it is off the chart.

We started drinking green beer around noon or so.  This was early for us - not to start drinking, but to be out of bed!  Anyway, as we wandered the French Quarter in a sea of green humanity, we found out that a parade would soon arrive.  Well, not exactly "soon," but around 9pm - so that left a few empty hours (about nine!) to have a couple more green beers.

When we finally staggered onto Bourbon Street (OH YEAH BABY! - BOURBON STREET!) the crowd had swelled to tens of thousands of drunk, green people.  As it turns out, the New Orleans "bead rule" works for parades too!  Let's just say that Stacy earned enough strands of 10 cent beads to open her own store.  Sure it's demeaning, but come on, you're talking about us!  Look, today is Tuesday, but we figure since it's usually a nothing day we can probably get some pretty good deals trading beads for beer...

                                                                            BONUS DAY - SIX PICTURES!

      
The parade started with Stacy getting free beads!                                        And then there were more free beads!

      
And the beads just kept coming!                                                  The beads wouldn't stop - What was Stacy doing?

      
Oh, now we get how Stacy earns her beads!                   Then the party ended!