Krewe of Carnivale en Rio

Look out, Rio membros!  Our fourth annual Rio Sambada was held on Friday night, AUGUST 22, 2008 at the PETROLEUM CLUB in Lafayette. Sorry fans...members only for this partido Latino.

Sambada night was the night we introduced our new King and Queen to our members. Our Dom Pedro IV is Cyrus Champagne and our Queen Isabel IV is Kelley Gauthreaux, both of Lafayette.

An exciting feature of our Rio Sambada is the selection by lottery of our Corte Real or Royal Court. Royalty wannabees placed their name in the lottery and had to be present to assume their courtly positions if their names were drawn. 

The luck of the draw revealed these new Corte Real members: Darren Babineaux, Ashleigh Dugas, H.L. Huffman, Bill Lukasko, Art Price, Dawn Quirk, Jeff Riggs, Judy Swindle, Doug Trahan and Keith Trahan.

Congratulations, Corte!