This weekend was a parade weekend. On Saturday, Kelsey and I made the hour-long subway trek to Coney Island for the 30th annual Mermaid Parade. This is Coney Island's version of Mardi Gras and is to welcome summer. People dress in all types of seas costumes (or lack thereof). At the end of the parade, the Queen Mermaid and King Neptune lead a procession from the Boardwalk into the water to officially open the beaches for the summer season. As you can probably imagine, this was a loud and boisterous parade with lots of celebrating as I hope you can see from some of our pictures.
On Sunday, the Pride Parade was held in Manhattan. I saw on the news that they were expecting 2 million in attendance. It was a very long parade lasting about 5 hours. We watched part of it, went to the grocery store, came home, I took a nap, went back out, and it was still going on. Kelsey says that the Atlanta parade has much more spunk and better costumes. Many of the people we saw in this parade were wearing matching T-shirts rather than crazy costumes.
It was hot, even for us country mice, but we thoroughly enjoyed these two unique NYC celebrations.
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