I’m listening to Beau Jocque and am really into the Mardi Gras mode. So it is only fitting that I fill you in on the Mardi Gras/Valentine extravaganza planned for this Saturday. It’s a lot like a good gumbo, a little bit of everything good.
Start the day at 10 a.m. with your hosts, the Social Committee, for a FREE Continental Brunch featuring scrumptious sweets, orange juice and coffee.
Move right on over at Noon to the POASC office to see the beginning of our own Mardi Gras parade or find your favorite spot along the parade route. (See map below) You guys in Land Harbor have it made. Just sit on your front porch and Laissez Les Bons Temp Rouler! This has become a special event in Spanish Cove sponsored by the Bay Buggies, featuring golf carts, bikes, motorcycles, pick up trucks and anything with wheels or some form of navigation, including feet. Join the line or wait on the sidelines to catch the beads and other goodies.
Next stop is the RV Clubhouse where you can dance the afternoon away from 2 to 4 p.m. This event is sponsored by your Activities Committee.
At 6 p.m. a snazzy dinner will be served at the Cove Clubhouse with–get this–real plates and silverware. A catered affair, the menu includes Chicken Cordon Bleu, Brown Rice, Sweet Potatoes, String Beans, Rolls and Butter, Home-Made Pies and Coffee and a glass of wine. Check with the Activities Office, 961-1130, or Dave Danson, 961-2165, to see if tickets are still available. Dress is Cove Casual, but wear your spiffy garb, if you want.
Thanks to all who are putting forth an extra effort to make this event memorable. Plan to attend all or some of the events. See you there!
Tags: Activities, Bay Buggies, Mardi Gras, Social, Valentine
The Bay Buggies came up with the idea of the Mardi Gras Parade 4 years ago, however this years festivities go far beyond the efforts of this golf cart club. Without the Social Committee who staffed and paid for the morning brunch, the activities committee who staffed and paid for the afternoon dance, Sue Huff and Lynn Oaks who provided many hours of preparation, serving, cleaning up, and advice about how the dinner be handled, and Charlie Davison who provided all the help he was asked to, including chairs at the POASC office for viewers, moving of tables for the dinner, printing of drive-by signs for change in location of the dance, and finally clean up and take down of the clubhouse after the dance, and a personal contribution of moon pies to be thrown to eagerly waiting hands, much of this successful and fun day would not have been possible. My personal thanks to all of those that participated including the hundreds who lined the streets and attended the events. The smiling faces, wagging tails, and many words of thanks and compliments tell me the day was a success.
Sandy slipped with a clue to her heritage, with her spelling of “splendour”!
You’re right, Dick. It was a wonderful day. I was able to attend all but the dance. I met a lot of new residents. The dinner was excellent. The food was hot, delicious and plentiful. We arrived a little before six, had a glass of wine and at 6:02 the food was ready. Fifty people were served within 20 minutes. I’ve been to many restaurants that can’t serve 20 in a timely manner, let alone 50. Thanks to all who made the day so special. I know it was a lot of hard work and of course, praying, with all that weather the night before. I hope there will be an encore next year. Good job!
I wasn’t able to attend the other events today, I’m sure they went well, but I gotta tell you I was really impressed with the Mardi Gras parade! This was the first for my wife Patty and me, but it won’t be our last. We had buggies, motorcycles, cars – all beautifully decorated and with spirited drivers & passengers! Many Cove residents turned out along the parade route for the event, even though we had experienced an entire night of thunderstorms and the skies were still threatening. Many of the folks dressed up in their Mardi Gras garb to cheer the paraders on. It was a great event all around.
There has been some contention and disagreement in the Cove of late, mostly about finances and the economy. But today was simply uplifting and positive, as everyone who participated was immersed in goodwill and good times. “Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!!”
Can’t wait to see all the ‘buggies’ in their splendour. The parade gets better every year.
Thanks for all the good info, Sally, and special thanks for posting the Mardi Gras parade route. A limited number of printed copies are also avaliable at the POASC Office and the two Clubhouses