Happy Fiesta!!
 

Fiesta officially starts at 10:00am today.

www.fiesta-sa.org

Post your Fiesta memories here, or fiesta plans.

I think I'm gonna take my sister to some Oysterbake tomorrow. I dont think I'll do NIOSA this year, but want to try the King William Fair. Of course, gotta do some Battle of Flowers.

god i hate you :(

Kitso
KS 361

Dont worry Kitso. I'll have a bock at Oysterbake listening to REK on friday night. ;)

You know you should be here for this. Its not my fault you live in Saskatoon or wherever it is....

BTW: Toobing season starts in about 3 weeks. :)

Saskatoon. What a great name.

I looove me some Fiesta!

I might be going to OB this year, but am not sure.

Not as great as Medicine Hat or Black Tickle!

i'll be workin the choc covered strawberry and roasted corn booths at OB on saturday...

dont forget...Kevin Fowler will also be there...yay!

I will be going to the State Association of Texas Pioneers ball tonight. I'm not too sure where I will be going tomorrow. I'll plan depending on how I feel after tonight!:D I hope to get some pins! Woo hoo! Viva Fiesta!! Oh yeah, it's killin me b/c I can't watch the Spurs game tonight. Oh well, that's the sacrifice that I make for Fiesta!!

I have been in SA during fiesta twice (once in middle school, once in high school).. it was SO much fun!!

I'd love to go back.. I'm in love with Texas!! :)

Am super hyped because I landed FOUR tickets to Battle of Flowers on Friday and they are PRIME. At the KLRN-TV studios, on an elevated platform, fenced in/away from the crowd, get to use the stations bathrooms and HEB is sponsoring with sodas and BBQ. How FREAKIN cool is that?

Didnt make it to oysterbake tho. :( Sis and I were too worn out from Friday, but did make it to Herman's Happiness, which is THE MOST UNDERATED event ever. Beer, bratwurst, hanging with my german peeps, it was a blast. Am working NIOSA (we've all been scolded by the media that its pronounced nee-osa, not nye-osa) on Wednesday which means I get in for free and get comp food and drink tickets. Cool.

Some Picts:

Heres Kitso if he was in SA right now:
http://www2.mysanantonio.com/multime...NS-KMH-2--.jpg

King Antonio and Rey Feo at San Fernando Mass:
http://www2.mysanantonio.com/multime...ASS-1-JL--.jpg

Texas Cavilier's River Parade:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/specials....1417e4b1a.jpg

you go to one gay bar for good drink specials and then you're a queen, that how it works?

I'd be wearing the hat, but you'd be the one next me and people would think you're my feminine bf :D

Kitso
KS 361

Bastard. lol.

Viva Fiesta!!
 

lifesaver, You lucky dog you!! How did you score those tickets? Pretty cool!! I of course waited too long to get Flambeau tickets and now I'm left out! :( :( :( :( Very sad about that one! Anyone have any suggestions or a hook up somewhere so I can buy 4 tickets? I'm not too pickey. Sorry shameless begging over. Went to NIOSA (whateven nee-os-a, I teach 1st grade and phonetically it would be ni-osa) last night. More crowded than it has been on a usual Tuesday night!! Ate alot and got a bit tipsy. Yummy food! I personally think that Fiesta should be 2 weeks!!


Loving the pictures. Especially the Hat King. I saw that thing last night. It must weigh a ton! He must have a major headache from wearing it!!

NIOSA ROCKS!!!
 

<lifesaver picking the cascarone reminants out of his hair>

My NIOSA nite:
http://www.niosa.org/images/poster_large_1996.jpg

Had a freking BLAST!!! Worked the horseshoe sausage booth in fronteer town so we got in for free and even got comp food and drink tickets. The best part is the dude who runs the booth had a cooler full of beer in the back, so we kept sneaking back there for refills. We had this little cave area behinfd the restrooms that was blocked off from the world and we just sat back there and got our drink on, and finsihed off a lot of his beer. (hey I sweat over a grill for 2 hours tho, so I worked for it). Then we ate sausage on a bun and left. had a few more beers, had shrimp on a stick. Hung out in the chinese area. Then headded over to the new african area and had Mr. Chicken and malt liquor (I am so not makign that up, its the new african american area and those old white ladies that ran it went WAY over the top trying to make it culturally relevant.. to the point that it was almost offensive. I mean, if youre having an area of african american foods, why does it have to be the ONLY place in the whole damn area that servs Malt liquor? And the worst part is that it was just Smirnoff Ice, but the damn sign said "MALT LIQUOR". Between the Fried Okra Booth and Mr. Chicken. I mean, I'm not black, but I'm almost offended by that. Anyway...So then we went to the Mexican area and hung out and watched the kids get busted for MIP's. THen went to the German area and I felt at home with my peeps. Since I was with my friend Heather (who's of Polish descent) I kept telling everyone that since I was german, I was either going to invade her around midnight or call up my russian friend and we'd split just share her. lol. Sat there, heard a bucnh of umpah music, did the chicken dance about 10 times and drank reisling and zigenbock. I ate Brautwurst and kraut and it was awesome. Then we came home. Love some NIOSA!!

Tomorrow (Friday) is Battle of Flowers!!! Whoo Hoo!


*Edited to add I paid some old broad in the german area $4 for the coolest Fiesta medal EVER. Its very Otto von Bismark. The ribbon is Black, Red and Yellow (Like the german Flag) and the medal is shaped like something all WWI'ish and reads "Orden des Deutschen Udlers, 2004" Which I think translates to Order of the German something 2004, lol." its also my first Fiesta pin ever. I've never been into collecting them, but this one looked really cool and I had to have it.

I so dont get Coronation...
 

I guess its like a coming out kinda thing. "Coronation of the order of the Alamo":


The court:
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The Municipal Auditorium stage is ablaze with color during the Coronation of the Queen of the Order of the Alamo ceremony on April 21, 2004. Gloria Galt Steves was crowned queen.

Look at that gal bow...
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The Duchess of the Emperor's Imperial Hunt, Henley Shirey Bracken, and her Duke, Paul Randolph May III, bow during the Coronation of the Queen ceremony of the Order of the Alamo Municipal Auditorium.

Emily Spicer
San Antonio Express-News
It's hard to imagine that the coronation of a true blue-blood monarch could be any more lavish than the Order of the Alamo's coronation.

Here the queen and her attendants wear acres of sumptuous velvet, yards of ermine trim and enough crystal and rhinestones to pave a football field.

That's hard to top, no matter how big your kingdom. And here in San Antonio, we don't wait for a death or marriage to crown someone new. We do it every year for Fiesta.

Wednesday evening, the crowd at Municipal Auditorium witnessed the crowning of Gloria Galt Steves as the Queen of the Court of the Lion and the Dragon and second runner-up Mary Tuleta Moore as Princess of the Spirit of Oriental Beauty.
To honor this year's theme of the splendors of the Silk Road, Mistress of the Robes Helen Eversberg decided to set the stage as an extravagant tent of the type in which Middle and Far Eastern nobility would rest and socialize while traveling along the fabled road.

Purple, gold and green sashes hung suspended from a ceiling of gold-quilted red velvet, which opened onto a desert oasis at twilight complete with three camels overlooking the evening's proceedings.

The theme provided not only a beautiful backdrop for the coronation, but an education for the audience. Only half of those informally polled in the lobby before showtime knew that the Silk Road was a series of trade routes that crisscrossed Asia and Europe from Japan to ancient Rome from the first millennium B.C. through the middle of the second millennium A.D.

One family of San Antonio women was especially eager to watch the show, because it was their first time to the event.
"I've lived here all my life, and I've never been, so I thought we should come," said Willetta Parish, who treated her daughter and granddaughter to the show.

This year there were 10 out-of-town duchesses from all over Texas and as far away as Atlanta. Unlike the 12 in-town duchesses who all performed their bows successfully and, for the most part gracefully, the out-of-towners experienced a few glitches.

Claire Cravens Browder of Waco sat facing the wrong side of the stage, and her duke had to rescue her several minutes later. Then Austin's Megan Elizabeth Maund struggled to free her train.
Finally, as the last out-of-towner was finishing her procession, the lower house suddenly was illuminated because of an early light cue.

In the end, none of these issues could have dimmed the enthusiasm of Sage Noe for the event. Noe, 13, is already a pro when it comes to coronation, having been a page three times and grown up with stories of her mother and aunt as duchesses and then as Mistresses of the Robes.

"Hopefully I'll be a duchess one year," Noe said. "I love how much time and effort it takes to make the beautiful designs of the dresses." All very noble-sounding until she gets to the real reason she wants to be a duchess.

"All the cute dukes, and, I don't know, wearing a pretty dress and walking down. I always thought that would be really fun."