Me and my belly! Will’s washable markers provided the medium and Paul the artistic hand, following a sketch I made on a napkin. After realizing how thick the standing crowd was, we kept back a bit with our chairs and I stood on our big block cooler. The belly got *a lot* of attention. People asked for photographs and several of the riders on the floats stopped to pick up cameras to photograph me. The local news and CNN affliate also took video of me — although we missed tonight’s news (I was making dinner) and haven’t seen our particular clip in CNN. The belly also attracted some special throws from riders who singled me out: including a huge stuffed tiger (Will was with me for this one so it was really for both of us) and some “risque” items from Zulu… a set of male nude playing cards and a (ahem) phallically-themed bead necklace (which I’m wearing in this picture if you can make it out!) 
{ 2006 02 28 }
Evie, Bethany, & Scott | 01-Mar-06 at 6:46 am | Permalink
I love your belly! I would of thrown you tons of loot too 🙂