Floyd Mardi Gras

On Friday night, Steve convinced me to go to a fundraiser for a school in Floyd.

Honestly to start with, I was not keen. It is so cold around here at the moment (I mean seriously freezing, barely getting above freezing most days) and once I got home I did not want to go out again. Plus it was fancy dress, and I had a few hours notice. So we had to go to Marty's house to get costumes together. (She sells vintage clothes so had tones of things to choose from we could borrow- it took a while to choose.)

But it was fun. We got some Jambalaya and wine and headed for the pavilion where the bands were. Unfortunately like I said, it was really cold (around 17F/-8C) and I could see my breathe for most of the time. Plus I had (stupidly) dressed in a dress and lace flat shoes. They had patio heaters around so a lot of people (us included) stayed very close to them, even danced around them. (Later in the night I ended up putting my shoes up the heaters to get heat to my feet - I got some funny looks but I had warm feet so the laughs on them!)

Back of the room.

Crazy costume and a smoke machine

Near the stage

They had a costume competition so some people went to great lengths with their costumes.

Marie Antoinette. 

They also had a belly dance display which I seriously hope was tongue in cheek. It was not good! Though fair play, they must have been freezing in those outfits and 3 of them didn't even have shoes on.

Belly dancers

The music was actually really good (light rock) and much better to dance to (in my opinion) than the house music last weekend. So we had a lot of fun dancing. Steve really got his groove on. He said his 70s/80s shirt made him dance like that. But I'm thinking it was just an excuse. :-)

Dancing away.

The last band were really good so we carried on dancing despite the crazy cold, though we had to fight for a place on the floor then. Apparently Spoon Feed are a very popular band.

Dance floor.

Spoon Feed

However it jet got to the point where I was just too cold so we found a spot in the restaurant next to a big heater. Heaven! It took while to defrost. And we ran back to the car and blasted the heater all the way home.