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| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
and, what, is gasparilla?
never been to tampa, but the other side of the state (ocean side, not gulf side) |
its like our pirate day... the more afflunet males in tampa (doctors and lawyers etc..) are part of this thing called the ye mystic crew of gasparilla and on like the first saturday of february they dress up as pirates and get into a pirate ship and sail down the bay... (we actually have a pirate ship docked near downtown year round)..
they disembark and then a parade busts out... a zillion floats go down the bayshore and near 500,000 of your drunkest friends are there to enjoy it with you... open container law is kind of looked the other way by cops on this day and if you dont black out by sun down then you didnt drink enough...
you walk near 10 miles but in your backpack you are constantly pounding your natty light or if you want to do the camel back thing with vodka by all means...
many boobies are shown (typically more for the night gasparilla which is 2 weeks later though) and more beads than mardi gras are thrown out..
edit: dont use your plane ticket for this... just drive down..
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