While big feather collars look great
for your Road March photo shoot, they are a pain in the *BEEP* when you are tryn
to Get On Bad in the blazing sun. For my upcoming carnival I decided to go with
a mini collar creation.It was a lot cheaper
than a regular collar and I think I may be able to endure it a lot longer on
the road.Here is a video tutorial of
the making of the collar.ENJOY!!!
I haven’t been to Houston Carnival since 2012. There are definitely
a lot more fete options now a days. Seems that Houston carnivals best fetes
were early in the week, but I wasn’t about to take off work to attend
them. Scorch hosted two events carnival weekend. A cooler party
Friday afternoon with none other than DJ Private Ryan on the 1s & 2s and a
pool party Sunday afternoon which is odd since it’s the same time as
carnival. The fact that Scorch came to town should give the carnival some
more credibility.
I would rate Houston carnival at a Tier 4. My first
Jamaica carnival back in 2013 I mentioned the different tiers of carnivals (in
my opinion).
Tier 1 – Trinidad, Brazil, Barbados
Tier 2 – Toronto, Miami, Jamaica Tier 3 – Atlanta, NY, DC (the old DC carnival, can’t vouch
for the new Baltimore/DC carnival) Tier 4 – Smaller carnivals Now keep in mind there is nothing wrong with Tier 4
carnivals, I attend them regularly to help me control my Carnival Tabanca. The
great thing about Tier 4 carnivals is that they are dirt cheap. My entire
Houston trip (flight, lodging, car, fetes, mas tshirt) cost less than my
Jamaica carnival flight.
Houston is so spread the *BEEP*
out. To keep the driving to a minimum, I tried to find fetes that were in
the same general area.
Landed Friday afternoon and headed to Madd Colors mas camp
to pick up my t-shirt and have a likkle drinky drink with the band.Checked into our hotel, power napped, and then
headed to Jouvert.I went to Jouvert
back in 2012 and that place was a MAD HOUSE, an endless sea of people.There was a lot less people this year, I
suppose due to the fact that there are many other fete options, but there was
still plenty plenty people in attendance.The event cost $20 and included an open bar, can’t beat that. It was in
a very spacious area, with plenty of parking.In 2012 we had to park about 1 ½ miles from the venue. #MADDNESS Eventually linked up with the Madd Colors fam and had a dutty
good time.There were even food vendors
in the venue so didn’t have to do the drunk search for food after.
Saturday afternoon we were supposed to go to the DAYBREAK:
Project H20 Wet Cooler fete.We arrived
3 hours after the designated start time and they still didn’t have their SH*T
together.Plan B: we headed to our aunts
house and had an impromptu family reunion / pool party.
Saturday night were supposed to go to Climaxx at the Air
Terminal Museum, but were too exhausted from swimming all day.Judging from the pictures, the venue and the
event looked very nice.
Sunday afternoon was the Caribfest Road march.May I just say that the Texas heat is NO
MUTHA *BEEPn* joke. OMG!!We honestly
only lasted about 3 hours, I was wishing I had tickets to that dayym Scorch
pool party.But I had a good time the
few hours I was there.
Got to finally meet a long time IG friend, I just love friendly people! *Hey Boo*
Because we didn’t exude too too much energy Sunday
afternoon, we were fully charged for the Ultimate Mega Fest Sunday night with
none other than DJ Crown Prince on the 1s and 2s.I guess I have been followingCrown Prince around this summer cause I just
saw him at DC carnival the week before and would be seeing him at Caribana the
end of July *Wink*
DJ Crown Prince
I gotta share a picture of our Struggle Cooler for this
event.We had consumed all our rum by
Sunday and Houston doesn’t allow hard liquor sales on Sunday.We spend like 30 min in the grocery store
trying to find the wine with the highest alcohol content.But after a few glasses of wine, we were OVER
IT.Luckily Madd Colors came thru and
shared their RUM RUM RUM RUM
The next day was the 4th of July and we headed
home to spend the day with our peeps... I now leave you with a quick recap video of Houston Caribfest Road March.
