Yesterday afternoon Marigny Perks was a stop on the 5th annual Marigny Bunny Hop and Easter Bonnet Bar Crawl. There are seven bars plus my coffee shop that participate. The day turned out chilly and wet and they all crowded in the shop for warmth and hot espresso drinks. I've put up a couple of pictures from the day.
The Bunny Hop is strictly a neighborhood event. At each stop a trophy is given for the category assigned to that location. My category was "Best Spring Garden Hat". The winner was a doctor who constructed a very tall hat with a girl on a swing at the top.
It's a lot of fun and some of the hats are quite impressive. There was a good crowd and I mixed taking pictures with acting as "bar back" for the Barista on duty. Now its Easter morning and its wet and cold. There are a couple of parades today so I hope it clears up.
New Orleans loves parades, costumes and masks. Its not for just Mardi Gras. For Easter, society ladies in horse drawn carriages parade to St. Louis Cathedral for Easter Mass. Strippers in all their finery parade behind the legendary Chris Owens in the French Quarter and drag queens in impossibly big hats parade in their own raucous/ladylike way.
Its Easter in New Orleans.
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You know, my boyfriend constantly makes snide comments about New Orleans just trying to extend Mardi Gras by having parades for St. Patty's Day and Easter and Halloween and Flag Day and Day after Monday and etc etc...and my response to that is we are a city that looks to appreciate everything. We find reasons to celebrate and reasons to find joy and happiness in each other. And find reasons to make everyone "a part". To be a part of New Orleans is to be a part of these wonderful reasons to celebrate and bring everyone together. So, to this post I say cheers to celebrating anything...
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Corey
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