The 2008 Sugar Cane Festival Parade was a BLAST! We all loaded up, queens, wannabees, and DIVAs alike~with out big hair and boots and tiaras and costumes and rode through downtown New Iberia, delighting the crowd with our dancing and bee-you-tee-ful appearance. They gawked and admired us from afar, thanks to our "SECURITY" personnel, who did a FINE job, I might add of keeping back our throngs of admirers. We passed out strawberry Twizzlers, flashingblinky rings, plastic jewels, strawberry Mardi Gras beads, and various other asundry things to the crowd and played sugar type music and acted up in a family friendly way. It was a great day and a great memory. I'll have more pictures to follow!
Well, hunnies, WE DID IT!!!! It was a whopper of a night and I don't know about the rest of MOQs (My Other Queens) and my DIVAs 'n such, but I had a he-helarious time and am still sufferin the "after-party" effects, which I am O-fficially calling THE AFTERGLOW and LUV'n it! Words cannot express how thankful I am to each and every one of the fine people who made this whole shindig possible and allowed my dream to reach its "fruit-ition"!!!! Totals are not in yet, but it seems we have exceeded our 5000.00 goal by over 2000.00!!! The board and I are tickled pink, to say the least so everyone who participated, came, or gave should be very proud of theirownselves!
The tables were bee-you-tee-ful, the wigs were gi-normous and fun and my DIVAs played the part to the hilt and the crowd just luv'd them all! Lawd--there were soooo many moments when I thought my jaws were broken and my sides hurt from laughin so much! Sandra Babineaux's comedy had us all rollin in the aisles and Brenda Lowry's song "Big Ovaries" wherein all the Stalk Studs sang along was too too kewt for words. I am sendin ya'll some pictures to enjoy and although it cannot quite captured the fun--ya'll can get a little idea of what it was like! I'll write more later, but I need to go clean up myownhouse and spend some time with Dr. Chop, MAA and CLB, who have been sufferin lately from lack of my presence!
Finally, I must say that indeed, it is truly GOOD TO BE QUEEN!!!! Parade time is right around the corner (this Sunday) so we are getting ready for that and I want ya'll to know that from the moment they attempted, but were sadly unable, to put that gi-normous crown on myownhead--I KNEW that my life would never be the same! I suddenly had no ill feelings anymore for Amy H. (crown stealer) and I resolved then and there to put the past behind me and accept this new tiara with heart-felt and totally pure purpose for honest to goodness WORLD PEACE..(sniff!sniff!) so God Bless You, ONe and ALL, sugahs!!!!
by the by...I know some of the pictures are sideways, but I cannot get the blankety blank photo CD to edit them, so I figured I'd share them anyway, til I could figure it out!
