Welcome to Mardi Gras
New Orleans Mardi Gras Float - Photo Courtesy of the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention & Visitors Bureau - Photographer Jeff Strout
Mardi Gras is about having a good time. It's about having fun and enjoying ourselves before Lent, or about blowing off steam toward the end of a long hard winter.
For many, Mardi Gras is inextricably linked with mayhem in the Big Easy. But New Orleans is neither the first nor the last Carnival celebration in the United States.
Fortunately, there are as many ways to celebrate Mardi Gras as there are people celebrating it.
And All About Mardi Gras is here to help you find the perfect way to embrace this age-old tradition.
Mardi Gras 2013: Tuesday, February 12
Headlines:
Bellingrath Home and Gardens - Mobile's Year-round scenic getaway. See how Gulf Coast high society lived in days gone by.
Mobile's Living Room - Mardi Gras at the historic Battle House Hotel
Civil War Pensacola - Beach bluff battlements and the Civil War's real first battle.
Galveston: Art & Architecture - Tree Sculptures, Artist Boat, and the Bishop's Palace.
Travel Along the Boudin Trail- A Guide to Southwest Louisiana's signature sausage
The Royal Gala - Lake Charles' Annual Mardi Gras Royal Regalia Fashion Show
Mardi Gras Museum- World's Largest Collection of Mardi Gras Costumes
Crystal Cajun Cook-Off - St. Louis' Cajun & Creole Antidote to Old Man Winter
Taste of Soulard - Soulard Shows Off Its Best Cajun & Creole Eats
Soulard Pet Parade & Wiener Dog Derby- St. Louis' Four-Legged Mardi Gras Fun
Mardi Gras Hot Links:
Foodies Check Out:
- Boudreau & Thibodeau’s just off Bayou Terrebonne in Houma, LA.
- Palace Cafe down in the Big Easy (New Orleans)
- The Boudin Trail in Lake Charles, LA
Sugar Junkies Hot Tip:
- Goo Goo Clusters and MoonPies to be thrown from parade floats in Mobile, AL and Pensacola, FL.
- The history of King Cakes in our history pages.
