HAPPY MARDI GRAS! Today is Fat Tuesday the last day of Mardi Gras and the day before Lent. This is the day to eat and party like there's no tomorrow.
We followed our next door neighbors, Joe and Ursula, into New Orleans with them showing us the way and where to park the car. We arrived at 8 a.m. while the streets were fairly empty and quiet as people were starting to arrive for the celebration. Thousands of people came in costumes that ranged from the wacky, to silly, to beautiful and elaborate, to obscene. And, some I would laugh at and say "OH Mylanta! What is that?"; or "is that a man or woman?"
The first parade (Zulu) arrived at the corner of Canal and Royal streets about 10:00. It was almost impossible to see anything since we were were about 8 rows of people back from the street, and we didn't bring our step-ladder (LOL). We left the parade route and walked down Bourbon Street; it was like we had walked into an invasion of creatures from another planet, or maybe the inmates had escaped from the insane asylum. People were dressed up in everything imaginable and by noon the streets, bars, and restaurants were full of music, and wall to wall people having serious fun. This is not a place for claustrophobics.
Call us party poopers, but by 3:00 our feet were tired and we were on sensory overload so we left the excitement and got out of there before the really wild and crazy antics started. Experiencing Mardi Gras in New Orleans was a blast and now we can cross one more thing off our bucket list.
Clowning around on Bourbon Street with Ursula and Joe.
Bourbon Street partiers throwing beads from a balcony.
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