Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Happy Mardi Gras!!

We decided to go to a couple more parades because we didn't think we would ever be back in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. Bacchus was Sunday at 5:15 pm and Orpheus was Monday at 6:00 pm. They were both amazing! All of the floats were fabulous and we had a blast watching them go by. We caught a lot of beads again (still don't know what we will do with them all)! We also caught 8 stuffed animals for Grant!
Here we are waiting for Bacchus to start. We only stayed for the first hour because Grant was ready to leave.
Start of Bacchus
Watching Orpheus
The detail on the floats were amazing! The dragon's head moved back and forth and had real smoke coming from its nostrils.

Most of the floats were two levels, if you look you can see people dropping beads from the upper level in the second picture.

2 comments:

Us 4 said...

Oh!! That looks so awesome!! What talent to make all of those floats!! Glad you all got to see that, maybe someday we can see them ourselves. Looks like Grant was even having a good time!:)

Jeff & Aleigh said...

Wow!!! That's amazing!! How cool to be there for Mardi Gras!!! :o)