We returned to Rebecca & Raymond’s driveway Thursday, 16FEB, which was also the big end of the Mardi Gras festivities! The parades throughout Louisiana on the upcoming Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday (lundi gras) & Tuesday (mardi gras) are usually the oldest and/or biggest krewes. We won’t bore you with details of this unique southern Louisiana cultural event that we have covered in previous BLOGs over the years.However there was something we noted that made more of an impression on us than when we lived here – the extensive news coverage devoted exclusively to Mardi Gras starting with the Feast of the Epiphany & continuing to Ash Wednesday. Once the parades start rolling, every news cast starts with the weather & go on for almost ten minutes about the possibility that a parade (or parades) might be cancelled. In addition, every station will have a mardi gras “expert” discussing the history of the krewes parading that night & the “signature” throw for this year for each krewe. One night the entire hour newscast of a local station was devoted to the super krewe of Endymion rolling into the superdome on their floats for their gigantic end of parade party. Nothing about the Republican primaries, problems in the middle east, etc.
Anyway, on the last day of parading, ie Fat Tuesday, 21FEB, it was decided to take baby Jaxson to his first Mardi Gras parade. Up to this point we had avoided the night parades for obvious reasons, & the earlier day parades had been rained on. Wanting not to deal with drunks & wanting a family atmosphere, we decided to view the parade with our old friends at ReMax. Thankfully the weather was great on Fat Tuesday & Jaxson went to his first Mardi Gras parade. Dan did have one disappointment. Several of the floats celebrated the men & women of the Armed Forces. Dan saw one of the floats with a CG “figure head”; unfortunately, the float said US Navy? Other than that, it was great day with friends enjoying the unique culture of southern Louisiana.
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