Right before the last VIS, the sales manager from the hotel where we hold the event, the W Hotel - New Orleans, invited us to RIDE IN A MARDI GRAS PARADE … all expenses paid! It was a “little” thank you from the hotel for all the business we’ve been sending them.

From the moment Chico hit the ground in New Orleans things got wild. Although we had planned on masterminding a little in New Orleans before the parade & festivities, things didn’t really go down like that.

So, for your viewing enjoyment, here is what our experience was like as riders in the Orpheus parade, 2008:

Waiting to go to the parade:

Arriving at the staging area:

Chris Daigle looking like a DORK:

Approaching our float for the first time:

Arriving at the floats, Pt 2:

Behind the Scenes on a Mardi Gras float:

We’re rollin:

Float catches a flat so we have time to kill … the “facilities” on the float:

Flat #2 & Chico reveals the fact that the VIS team’s always working …

Watch for Part 2 of the Mastermind Gone Wrong!