It’s Mardi Gras…February 27, 2011

The Mardi Gras season is in full swing with parades and activities happening everywhere.  I know a lot of folks believe that New Orleans is the home of Mardi Gras but it actually began in Mobile, Al which is just a few miles from our park in Fairhope.

We went to our first parade this afternoon in Fairhope…the Mystic Mutts of Revelry.  It is certainly my favorite parade.  Here are a few pictures.

Snooki and The Situation from The Jersey Shore…er, I mean the Eastern Shore.

We then hung around for the night parade put on by the Knights of the Ecor Rouge…this year’s theme was Toyland.  Unfortunately it is very hard to get pictures after dark.  We ran into friends from our park and had a great evening.

Chris, Larry and I are waiting patiently…

I wanted this gentleman’s big beads but he wasn’t giving them up.

Dottie, Barb, me and Chris.

And here came Ron, Vern, Jeannie and Joan.

These find folks are ready to attend one of the balls following the parade.

It’s been a long day…more to come.

Moving on.

Robertsdale Quilt Show February 3, 2011

This morning 13 ladies from our RV park, drove a few miles to Robertsdale, AL to a quilt show at one of the local churches.  This was not a juried show and evidently all quilters were encouraged to submit quilts for viewing.

The folks that were running the show could not tell us exactly how many quilts were on display but they knew they had at least 300 and probably closer to 400.  I don’t think I have ever seen so many quilts in one place before…I should say so many beautiful quilts.

This show is presented every other year.  I asked one of the ladies that was selling the tickets why they don’t do it every year and she say because it would kill them!

Here are a few of the quilts.

There were quilts everywhere…here are the ones displayed in the sanctuary.  Not a great shot…you can’t really tell just how many were in this room.  The quilt just to the left of the yo-yo quilt is circa pre-civil war.  There were several dating back to the 1800s.

They even had quilts in the area where they were serving lunch…along with live music.

I did not get a picture of it but there was a quilt made up of about 1” squares of fabric…it was very large and contained 20,000 squares!  I took their word…wasn’t going to count them.  Jeanie told me she would give me $500.00 to make her one like that so I agreed to do it if she would cut out the squares.

This lady, sorry, did not write her name down, was presented as a master quilter and had a room just for her quilts. And here she is.

 

This was my favorite from her room…a glorious peacock.

These were done by one gentleman including all the embroidery.

And then there were the quilts made from a man’s ties.

We left the quilt show to have lunch and most of the ladies returned to the RV park but Jeanie, me, Eleanor and Lois went back to see more of the quilts.

It was a great day to be inside as it is soooo cold in Fairhope, AL.

Moving on.