Getting Ready for the Mardi Gras Classic!

The Mardi Gras Classic is a large volleyball tournament held in New Orlenas every Martin Luther King weekend in January. Kevin and Lewis are primary members of Volleyball New Orleans who help put on the tournament and they volunteered (commandeered) the assistance of Jerome and I this week.

We were supposed to play volleyball on Monday night in the BREC league, but due to the court "sweating" we were unable to. For those of you who don't live in a steam room for half the year, "sweating" is condensation. Just like your McDonald's cup forms beads of water on the outside of the cup when left alone, so too does a myriad of things in Louisiana "sweat" during a shift from really cold weather to warm weather. Last Thursday, it snowed and this Sunday and Monday, temperatures were in the 70's and it was extremely humid.

Because of this "sweating" phenomenon, the court had a film of moisture on it and it made it dangerous to play. So anyway, that was the plot exposition to lead us to what we ended up doing on Monday night. Kevin and Lewis brought over some of the awards that will be given out to the first, second, and third place teams in the different divisions at the Mardi Gras Classic and we assembled the prizes. With all four of us working together, we finished it all in about 20 minutes.

The real work will happen in January when we'll be stuffing give away bags and registering people who come in for the tournament.


(Lewis, Kevin, Jerome..we would make awesome factory workers.)


(The medals are glass fleur de lis on Mardi Gras beads, the colors are the colors of Mardi Gras, purple, gold, and green.)