stacy b-log

As if the calendar weren't crowded enough already, please mark yours for SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 - yes, the day before the Stupid Bowl - for the KREWE OF HELIOS-ARIZONA MARDI GRAS PARADE AND PARTY, VI!!!

(We figured we'd start listing the years in Roman numerals since we're coinciding with the Stupid Bowl - but for those of you who never made it through Latin, VI means 6, or 'six' as the case may be.)

For those of you who don't live in Scottsdale and haven't been bombarded by the Stupid Bowl Countdown (T-minus 59 days {LIX} and counting, as of this posting), the highlight of your weekend (that would be our party) coincides with the busiest day at the Phoenix Open Golf Extravaganza (only V miles to the south) and a flurry of surgically enhanced Official Stupid Bowl parties (which cost upwards of $CC per ticket and to which you're probably not invited anyway - imagine that, 200 = 2 C-notes!)

So come party with people who know how to have a good time (and won't require you to meet a dress code - we just require you to REMAIN clothed)

THE KREWE OF HELIOS-ARIZONA (the only official Mardi Gras Parading Organization in Arizona)
HEREBY OFFICIALLY INVITES YOU AND YOURS (and yes, your kids - but sadly, not your dogs)
TO PARTY LIKE (aunts-by-marriage-of) ROCK STARS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2008
3 PM - 10 PM (or whenever we kick your butt out - isn't VII hours enough time to consume free food and beer? And, yes, we're starting earlier this year, to accommodate for Phoenix Open traffic, and we will be publishing alternate routes, but we're too lazy to do it right now)
AT THE KREWE OF HELIOS-ARIZONA WORLD HEADQUARTERS
24952 N. 74TH PLACE
SCOTTSDALE AZ 85255 (google map to come later - or look it up yourself)

And please, don't blame our MMVIII King and Queen of Mardi Gras - the honorable Ryan and Cynde Cerf Dehmer - they had nothing to do with the scheduling. Sadly, Van Halen was not willing to alter their tour schedule to accommodate a better, non-Stupid-Bowl-Weekend date for us (and no, they're not playing the party - Uncle Pat will be on tour with them during the more appropriate and less crowded, more desired date of January XXVI! Sorry about that...)

Come on out, drink some beer, PARTICIPATE IN THE NEW-FOR-MMVIII ADULT PINATA (no, it's not X-rated, you just have to be XXI to play), eat some AMAZING gumbo (that has been featured on the Rachael Ray Show), drink more beer, eat more gumbo, catch REAL MARDI GRAS BEADS (PLEASE, don't take off your clothes), and participate in our parade (if, and only if, you arrive early because it doesn't take that long to drive VI cars around a cul de sac).

We'll have more details as it gets closer - we just wanted our name on your dance card!

Laissez les bon temps roulez,
Pat and Stacy Bertinelli
Founders and Captains, Krewe of Helios-Arizona