Mardi Gras!

Mardi Gras is coming and I am so excited! This is going to be the first one ever and we're taking the boys to as many daytime parades as possible. We're going to avoid anything after dark because it just gets too "adult" for our taste. How fun will this be!!! I'm telling you, this city knows how to party! People actually decorate their houses here for Mardi Gras just like everyone else does for Christmas.

Parade Schedule:

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6
Phunny Phorty Phellows - Streetcar Route, 7:00 pm


SATURDAY, JANUARY 19
Krewe du Vieux - French Quarter, 7:00 p.m.


SUNDAY, JANUARY 20
Orleans / Jefferson
Little Rascals - Metairie, 11:00 a.m St. Tammany
Perseus - Slidell, 1:00 p.m.


FRIDAY, JANUARY 25
Orleans / Jefferson
Oshun - Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Atlas - Metairie, 6:30 p.m.
Cleopatra - West Bank, 6:30 p.m.
Excalibur - Metairie, 7:00 p.m.
Pygmalion - Uptown, 7:00 p.m. St. Tammany
Eve - Mandeville, 7:00 p.m.


SATURDAY, JANUARY 26
Orleans / Jefferson
Pontchartrain - Uptown, 1:00 p.m.
Shangri-La - Uptown, 2:00 p.m.
Caesar - Metairie, 6:00 p.m.
Sparta - Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Pegasus - Uptown, 6:45 p.m. St. Tammany
Olympia - Covington, 6:00 p.m.


SUNDAY, JANUARY 27
Orleans / Jefferson
Alla - West Bank, Noon
Carrollton - Uptown, Noon
King Arthur - Uptown, 1:15 p.m.
Barkus - French Quarter, 2:00 p.m.
Rhea - Metairie, 3:45 p.m.
Centurions - Metairie, 5:30 p.m. St. Bernard
Nemesis - Chalmette 2:00 p.m. St. Tammany
Dionysus - Slidell, 1:00 p.m.


WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30
Druids - Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Thor - Metairie, 7:00 p.m.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31
Babylon - Uptown, 5:45 p.m.
Chaos - Uptown, 6:30 p.m.
Muses - Uptown, 7:30 p.m.


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Orleans / Jefferson
Hermes - Uptown, 6:00 p.m.
Aquila - Metairie, 7:00 p.m.
d'Etat - Uptown, 6:30 p.m.
Jason - Metairie, 7:30 p.m.
Morpheus - Uptown, 7:45 p.m. St. Tammany
Selene - Slidell, 6:30 p.m.
Orpheus - Mandeville, 7:00 p.m.


SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2
NOMTOC - Westbank, 10:45 a.m.
Iris - Uptown, 11:00 a.m.
Tucks - Uptown, 12:30 p.m.
Endymion - Uptown, 4:30 p.m.
Isis - Metairie, 6:00 p.m.


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3
Orleans / Jefferson
Okeanos - Uptown, 11:00 a.m.
Thoth - Uptown, 11:30 a.m.
Mid-City - Uptown, 2:00 p.m.
Bacchus - Uptown, 5:15 p.m.
Napoleon - Metairie, 5:30 p.m. St. Tammany
Tchefuncte - Madisonville, 10:00 a.m.


LUNDI GRAS, FEBRUARY 4
Proteus - Uptown, 5:15 p.m.
Orpheus - Uptown, 5:45 p.m.
Zeus - Metairie, 6:30 p.m.


MARDI GRAS, FEBRUARY 5
Orleans / Jefferson
Zulu - Uptown, 8:00 a.m.
Rex - Uptown, 10:00 a.m.
Elks Orleans - Uptown, 11:30 a.m.
Crescent City - Uptown, follows Elks
Argus - Metairie, 10:00 a.m.
Jefferson Trucks - Metairie, follows Argus
Elks Jefferson - Metairie, follows Jefferson
Grela - West Bank, 11:00 a.m.
Choctaw - West Bank, Noon St. Tammany
Lions - Covington, 10:00 a.m.
Covington - Covington, follows Lions