Krewe Of Eve

What was once the one parade I could take my kids to has become an awful mess. Prior to this year I would always watch the parade at the very beginning. That meant easy parking, a quick viewing experience and an easy exit post parade. This year the geniuses in. Mandeville decided that area was a "no parade zone" due to construction. That meant I was forced to find a new spot or deal with the wrath of my children. You see, I promised them I would take them to a parade, and you should never make promises to kids that you don't intend to keep. So anyway, I studied the route and picked a spot. The spot I picked (classified) seemed to offer all that my old spot did, but in soon learned it was nothing like it. First off, I encountered some ne'er do wells smoking marijuana in the parking area. Thanks degenerates for exposing me to your bad habits. Second, the route in this area is not lined with barricades. It's a lot easier to prevent float crushings if the route is barricaded. Also in this area were an enormous amount of parked vehicles along the side of the road. Apparently the only spot without illegally parked cars was my original spot and that wasn't an option. These car people we parked literally on the route in the road. Should one of them decided he wanted to mow down the crowd nothing would have stopped him. The parade itself was all out of sync. The gap between floats was massive despite being somewhat close to the start of the route. This all women's crew was pretty good about throwing to the kids which was the one plus, but waiting so long between floats made my kids antsy. It was almost as if there was no organization to the parade whatsoever. The final nail in the coffin was the post parade experience. Despite the parade being completely past our location, traffic was at a standstill. For some reason the police had the only avenues of exit completely blocked. Making matters worse was that when one additional route opened, they weren't doing anything to facilitate traffic moving smoothly. It's almost as if this was the northshore's first ever Mardi Gras parade and no one knew what to do. As parades go, this was not a good experience. My kids did enjoy catching stuff, but if they don't improve the entire operation, I doubt I'll be back.

I love this Parade...I'm probably biased though. This was the S/O's and my first parade together. So, I might be alittle too generous with this review!I lived a couple of blocks away from the route where it turned off of Monroe onto 190 and it was a convenient place to watch. It's a small, Nice family themed parade where most people are well behaved and friendly. No real fighting over beads and throws. This year was the same, a fun local parade with plenty of throws and some good High school bands playing.

We had an absolute blast at Eve! The ladies we generous with throws and they were kind not to pelt us with beads! I love all women krewes-the beads were extra nice. Great crowd too-low key and everyone was so sweet to us! We will be back next year.