These started Uptown so I watched the paradecam. I start at 11:40am, NY time. (All times below are NY time)
Okeanos
They open with a shot of 7 kids on a ladder box, squirming away. It looks cold down there. People have jackets on with hoods! At least it is a sunny day.
2 white stretch limos go by with a police escort.
Around noon the camera pans around. The video stream is a little jerky.
At about 12:13 we see some official vehicles but no hosts yet. We do see some cars being towed away.
12:26 we see some Entergy trucks. Still no host and no audio.
A shot of Fat Harry's, some people hanging out in front of it.
12:43 we see a NOPD truck and some more cars and the parade has begun. No host and no audio.
We see some green and yellow motorcycles. All the same. Who are these guys?
Then some ATVs.
The first band, the Ramblers.
The first float, a nice seahorse on the end of it.
More ATVs, all red.
2 clown (spelled "klown") units. Are these medical clowns? One is in a little green van, the others follow in a truck.
1 pm the Quicktime player restarts itself at the beginning of the stream. I quit it and restart it to pick up where I left off. Now we have audio and the hosts! Erika is hyping nola.com alot.
The Super Steppers do an ok routine.
Lots of mediocre floats.
Cajun cowboys and indians on horseback.
We see Erika dancing briefly.
A nice long shot of the crowds and floats down St Charles, kids dancing on ladders, riders throwing little green frisbees.
Mid City in 1/2 an hour? (Why wouldn't it be right behind since they are a 1/2 hour behind schedule?)
Mid City
1:45 pm, the host starts and the parade too.
Parrot Heads In Paradise float, a Jimmy Buffet theme for this parade.
Nice purple and gold band (St Augustine?)
Riders on many floats aren't masked. I lose audio in mid-sentence.
Lots of foil floats.
Nice queen smile (as was in Okeanos too)
White and gold and the 2 bees again.
The camera shows a Mid City potato chip bag he caught.
We see the hearse that was in last night's parade and the red hot rod pulling the calliope and band.
A cop greets a parent overseeing one of the marching bands with a high five hand shake and they talk and walk. Good to see people who know each other.
See a mess of a gold float.
The Ramblers Band in a green trailer.
Thoth
38 floats, 25 marching bands, 1250 riders Erika says.
The Chalmette owl!
We get a good close up of a band and some nice drum solos. They lean back when they start walking again.
We see a close up of a doubloon.
Nice lions on the King's float.
Float #13, the King's Entourage, has a weird tilted crown on the front of it.
The Tulane band shows a move or two.
Cute princesses on the Queen's float. The hosts remark that with the aggressive throwing on that float that "they won't be happy until someone loses an eye." I can imagine. (I thought they weren't allowed to throw overhand... but 75% of them are.)
The Rebirth Brass Band passes by but it's too short.
A float is throwing spears!
A nice Sphinx on one float with an equally well done bird woman on the back. (What is the name of that figure in Egyptian iconology? She has a big beak curving down.)
I think it is a guy from Wisconsin who plays the flute next to the nola.com folks. White beard.
Nice hieroglyphs on one double float.
I can't hear most of what Erika is saying and that is for the good. Then I lose audio altogether. I restart the player and get the audio back.
We see an amphibious vehicle with a boat on it's trailer.
Nice dolphins on float #3, Swimming With the Dolphins.
Flambeaux Band on a red float.
Nicely illustrated swamp float.
Tons of throws from a blue float, #8, The Mermaid.
Nice skull on float #11, Davy Jones Locker and nice hats on the riders of that float.
I'm noticing the audio is ahead of the video. Sigh.
A "beach closed" sign on the jellyfish float.
Urban cowboys on horses.
The male host says the parades are back to back. They aren't. There's at least a 1/2 hour gap between this one and Mid City.
Wasting Away in Margaritaville with a margarita and some parrots.
A multi-armed figure, like a Bodhisattva, This one is skinny. Titled "Lost Mayan Waterfall"? I don't get that.
3:43 pm I am getting tired of hearing Erika in general, and hyping nola.com so much.
Whale watching in Hawaii float has killer whales on it...
A rider is tossing out Jello shots!
A shark float.
The audio is breaking up. I restart the player but all I had to do was pause it and let it play again, which I later learn.
Good dancing from some in blue and white.
Marlin fishing. (Maybe that was a Marlin in an earlier parade instead of a sail or swordfish?)
#23, Crabbing has a large crab on the front of the float.
Abdul and the Tent Makers! What a great name for a band. I've seen them in Mardi Gras parades for the past couple of years now. They're playing "I Feel Good" as they pass by.
#24 Playing with the Penguins, nice penguins on the float and nice penguin throws, we see.
#25 Seahorse Watching, nice seahorse.
Some pirates with signs on a float go nuts for the camera.
We see some belly dancers and I missed it but they say there was a large snake in a box that they have with them.
The parade ends.
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