Before I subject you to another Tampa parade (What? Don’t Tampa people have anything better to do?) let me say the San’t Yago Knight Parade is the craziest of the parades that crash this city. The parade begins like all the other parades… the same floats… the same costumes… lots of beads. But this parade…
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IT’S GASPARILLA CRAZY TIME
ARG! Once a year executives trade neck ties for eye patches, throw beads instead of business cards, and Tampa falls into the hands of pirates (and beer cans, port-o-potties, and plastic wrappers). It was Gasparilla time! For you non-Tampa natives, Gasparilla is a Tampa-made holiday where the city celebrates fictional Jose Gaspar, a pirate. Did…
EARLY HOLIDAY CELEBRATION– BUSCH GARDENS STYLE
Please, why must Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” also permeate into a destination I love? Busch Gardens Tampa tries to make itself a holiday destination by stocking up on the Christmas trees, red ribbons, and fake snow that are thrown everywhere throughout the theme park. Sometimes it can be funny because the…
THE DAY ALL FILIPINOS IN TAMPA GATHERED
While the majority of party-goers were in St. Pete this weekend for the Grand Prix, I was stuck behind a booth at a lesser known festival for 11 hours… but I was never bored. Heck yea, of course I wanted to see a bunch of cars and hot racers speeding down the city, but…
