We attended the Bacchus parade. Lots and lots and lots of beads are thrown from the floats to the spectators. We acquired a ton of moderately cool beads this way - nothing great, but still some decent stuff.
We then wandered around on Bourbon street and saw lots of drunken revelry (and participated in the revelry as well).
Later in the evening, we stopped into a deli for food. As we were eating the terrible pizza they sold us, two girls wandered in and immediately started tugging at some of Mike and Jose's beads. "Can we have these?" they asked. "What will you do for us?" was the immediate reply from Jose and Mike. They offered to kiss each other. The deal was agreed upon and they proceeded to *really* go at it in front of us. They were very cute. I asked where they were from (i.e., where can one find more girls like this?) They said "Pennsylvania". Jose noted that he has known some girls from Pennsylvania and none of them are like that.
We resolved to purchase many more beads of the kind that these two girls were interested in.
We saw a remarkable spectacle on Bourbon Street. Two girls were showing both top and bottom frontal nudity. The most interesting part was the tubby hawaiian looking frat boy type, who was involved in the display. The girls were beckoning from the balcony for more beads, but the guy was too. He was sort of a bead-pimp. He was also the one responsible for pulling their shirts up, or pants down. The interesting thing is, they were not pretty enough to be professional strippers or anything, and this guy was pretty gross. Nonetheless, they were letting him paw all over them both, and neither one seemed to be his favorite. So girlfriend is ruled out. It just wasn't clear at all what the relationship was, and there had to be some relationship because he was pulling their panties down and then turning them around and spanking them for the crowd. Not something you'd let a stranger do, I would think. Lots of people in the crowd asked, "Hey man, how do I get *that* job? What did he have to do!?!?"