Weather Update For NOrleans And Important Uniform Changes

Bring your ponchos and extra socks, shoes, and clothes... It is looking more and more like rain and colder temps for the weekend!

Important Changes This Weekend:
Wear Troop Class A T-Shirt under your BSA Class A shirt when you meet at Porters Chapel. We will then hang the BSA Class A shirts in the trailer so we can wear them Saturday. We will wear Troop T-Shirts Sunday as well. It is starting to look like rain this weekend, so bring extra socks and ponchos.


Sparta has a banner that they would like to have at the beginning of the parade. Since all the parades are in line, this will let the people know where Sparta starts and the other one ends. It will take two scouts (and an adult leader or parent to go with them) to carry the banner.

Of course, this means you will miss the other parades, but I am willing to share any throws I catch with whoever does this, and I'm sure, as a Troop, we will all pitch in to make sure you get at least one of everything (cup, doubloon, pendant etc.) and you should end up with as much stuff (if not more) than the other guys. And as part of the parade, you will, of course be there when they unload the floats.

Anyone interested in being in the parade? Let me know ASAP!

Also -

Dave said that if we want to help unload the floats we are welcome to keep any thing we find on the floor. Some Krewe members will have bags of stuff to take off, but if we find loose beads or anything lying on the floor, it's ours (Mike, Noah and I got a lot of stuff Sunday off the floats from the Jupiter parade).

The parade ends at Tchoupitoulas and St. Joseph (behind the Holiday Inn Select. If we park south of the parade route we can drive up Tchoupitoulas toward the Holiday Inn and, if parking is difficult or traffic bad, drop the boys off with a couple leaders and they can walk to where the floats are unloading (maybe a block or two). Anyone who was with us at Orpheus last year remembers what a float unloading looks like; just walking by some of us got whole bags of beads that riders did not want to carry home.

The parade should be there by 3:30, and if unloading takes a while we may just do the Beads By The Dozen, dinner and then the Caesar parade in Metaire, rather than trying to get to Covington by 7 pm.