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Date: Friday 20th February 2009 Location: Blue Range Courts. Diego Martin, Trinidad Promotions: Blue Range and Red Ants Committee Click on thumbnails to see the big picture/entire gallery The Power of a good Cooler Fete The ride to the venue seemed to take quite sometime .... getting around this island is no joke. Think they need Obama for this traffic problem??? On the other hand, it could have been that we felt like we were in the car forever because we were late ... anxiety and excitement kicking in!!!! We need to get there, but we have no idea where the party is!!!??? Eventually, we pulled
into the neighborhood. Driving around seeing all the cars and people in
the streets, it looked like someone was having a block party. All we could
hear was the bass from the speakers. We drove around the masses to look
for a place to park. Cars were crammed up and down the street. For some
reason it looked like there would be tons of spaces but a closer examination
revealed that there were these gaping holes between the cars on the side
walks. People should watch out because someone might fall into one of
those holes!
Trekking up to the
party we got a vision - a full vision - the large crowd that was still
hanging outside the party location. Was it possible that we can probably
have just as much fun on the outside as on the inside? Uhmm?? We were
wrong!!!! We quickly acquired two tickets which, with much thanks to the
"Soca scalpers" was easy enough. As we walked into the party..
wetness .... the rain start to pour. One of the crew being a "glass
half full" type person, considered our luck good at this point. This
wasn't a light drizzle, but more of an outside shower as everyone ran
for cover between the food and drink tents. Once protected from the tropical
depression, our eyes adjusted to the rest of the party, and we observed
scores of go-hard partiers still moving to the music. Turns out that there's
a strong bond between a man and his cooler that the rain just can't break!!
Our ultimate plan
was to find friends with a large selection of coolers to wine & gyrate,
talk some tootle-bay nonsense, and listen to the Soca pounding from the
speakers. With that in mind, we definitely found the cooler with the bessss
stash of drinks and the DJ definitely supplied ALL the Soca hits!! Score!!!
Everyone was dancing and having a great time, which appeared to be a byproduct
of having your own personal bar at your feet. There was a live performance
by Skinny Fabulous, and in this fete the responses to "Head
Bad" was extremely resounding. Good times.... toward the
end of the night the DJ did his own competition of who should win Road
March'09. Our cheers for Destra's "Bacchanal"
seemed to tip the scale. All in all, it was a great party, even with the rain delay. Definitely a party that TJJ will be at next year .... this time we coming with our own cooler!! Who say we teef ah fridge and pack it up with ice and some alcohol? Any takers?
Looking for a ole
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We eventually found a spot.. way down at the end of one of those long
blocks.
Then the DJ announced the winner, and we all 