I’m sure I sound like a broken record when I say, “This
carnival tops all carnivals… EVER!” But
I’m serious, it was amazing!!! The trio
of Rocky, Paco and Girly joined forces again for another Trinidad
Carnival. Rocky moved back to Trinidad
and had an apartment by Queen’s Park Savannah so that made life easy frekkin
breezy. Left Atlanta 6am on Wednesday, landed in Trinidad at 2pm and spent the
afternoon picking up costumes and jouvert packages (I must admit that I took an
hour power nap while they handled the 3rd pick up) . Then we proceeded to link with other homies
on the Ave and lime until 4am. Hot dayym we had a time!!!
Thursday afternoon before we headed off to Cest La Vie, Paco
and I were walking around trying to find an ATM that wasn’t out of cash. We happened upon an Elementary School that
had a full fledge fete going on. The kids
were in costumes and dancing around in the blazing heat like their adult
parents and 5Star Akil was performing my jam “To Meh Heart” if it wasn’t for the fact that we had to hustle
back I would have stayed there and partied with the kids for a couple hours. The Cest La Vie fete did not disappoint. I definitely drank my $125 worth of
alcohol. There was plenty food options,
but that’s honestly that last thing I care about at fetes. Gimme rum, champagne and alcohol ice cream
pops… and keep em coming!!! Of course
afterwards we hit the Ave but things went downhill about an hour after we got
there. A few people had their alcohol
catch up with them so we all headed home around midnight.
Friday afternoon was Frenzy boat ride. The seas were kinda choppy that day, so I
spent a good portion of the fete on the bottom level. Private Ryan was supposed to come through as
he always does for Frenzy events, but they said he ended up being double
booked. FROWNY FACE L but I had no complaints about the DJ on
board, we definitely got wild and crazy
on the dance floor and some of the pix we saw afterwards had to be destroyed!
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| Frenzy Boat Ride |
We were supposed to go to Soca Monarch Friday night, but we
decided to chill since we had Caesar’s Army A.M.Bush 3am Saturday. A.M.Bush is everyone’s favorite event. I soooo look forward to being able to fete
with Caesar’s Army at Jamaica, Barbados and Miami carnivals later in the
year. Anywho, I don’t really need to
explain how sh*t goes down with Caesar’s Army, you should already know by now if
not the pix and video say it all.
Madness to the 10th power PLUS a lil more!!!
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| Caesar’s Army A.M.Bush |
Wrapped up with Caesar’s Army around 9am and we were exhausted, time to sleep right??? WRONG!!! Kiddies Carnival was going down and when you tried to lay down the vibrations from the Bose Sound in the passing music trucks actually shook your body. So we just chilled on the patio till it wrapped up around 2pm. It was an amazing site to see all the tiny masqueraders, just melted my heart.
Saturday night was the Utopia fete, that was supposed to be low key vibes so that we could go hard at Shades Breakfast fete in the morning. Some of us (mainly me) ended up going HARD in the Paint!!! I had a dayym good time even though we went super early before most others arrived. I drank, drank, drank, drank and once again got my $$$ worth. The food looked so good I couldn’t help but to sample a lil. Dei Musicale was on the 1’s and 2’s so everyone was dancing their life away. Left Utopia around 1am (maybe not the best idea)
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| Dei Musicale in the building |
Woke up at 4am for Shades Breakfast fete, if the venue wasn’t
so far I would have been like “F*ck this sh*t, I’ll catch y’all in a couple
hours.” I was pretty useless at Shades.
I enjoyed myself for a few hours and then I turned into a mindless zombie
(repeat of Shades 2012). The Shades
venue is so beautiful, but I do miss the
pool from the Shades 2011 venue (Misty Ridge).
The grassy area became Vagrant Corner and I quickly became a vagrant
that wanted nothing more to do with the fete, I did however wake up to partake
in yummy Puncheon Rum lollipops & watch Benji perform cause I luvs luvs luvs Benji. Crazy ass Mr. Killa performed and you know that was quite
entertaining. Mr. Killa and his crazy dance moves had us
acting a fool all week trying to replicate his performances. SMH!!!
I left Shades feelin brand frekkin new from my power nap!!! All I need in life is a patch of grass and some shade and I am good to go!!!
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| Nap time for everybody |
While Paco & Rocky napped, I walked over to the Hilton
to chillax with the girls in the pool for a few hours, then captured this amazing shot on the
walk back. It hit me, Ive been partyin
like a Soca Star all week but in a couple hours SH*T IS ABOUT TO GET REAL!!! I went to bed around 7pm Sunday to get fully
rested for Jouvert Morning.
2am Monday arrives! The
day I have been waiting all year for.
Before partaking in Monday Mas, we gots to get DUTTY!!! Walked over to the Dirty Dozen Jouvert mas
camp for basically a rave before the jouvert road march started. Rum, Foam, Paint, Powder, Fun Fun Fun Fun. Now once the road march started … The beast
let go!!! I did have an incident with a
vagrant, but its all good. I realized it was a vagrant dancing behind me about
15 seconds in but F*CK IT, its carnival you get another 10 seconds Mr.
Vagrant!!!
Danced around the streets of
Port of Spain like kiddies throwing paint and powder on each other and dancing
on any and everything!!! We left the
band around 7am cause we had to power nap before Monday Mas, but the band kept
going till around 10am and then had an after party/wet fete at the mas
camp.
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| Dirty Dozen Jouvert |
This was by far my best carnival to date!!! The memories shall stay with me forever!
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