This article comes about one month late due to writer’s block and a busy schedule. I will keep this short.
My favorite days of Mardi Gras are Sunday, Monday and Fat Tuesday. It is true that the biggest parade of Mardi Gras is Endymion which rolls on the Saturday before Fat Tuesday; however, I enjoy Sunday’s Bacchus more. It is also much easier and cheaper to get a hotel room on Sunday. For our trip this year, I used priceline.com and ended up at the Marriott Convention Hotel across from the conventtion center and one block from the end of most parades’ route. The cost was about $75 for the Sunday night. Harrah’s Casino gave us a room at the Hilton Riverside for the remaining two nights.
The Attack of the Beads
We watched most of the parades on Poydras and Tchoupitoulas since it was easier for me to record the parade on my cheap digital camera due to the extra street lights. I was not even trying to catch the beads, but several bags of beads landed on my face on Sunday and Monday night. The Bacchus Parade had the most beads but the Orpheus Parade on Monday night had the most celebrity. The D listers consisted ofJ oan River and her daughter, Melissa, Jim Belushi, and Officer Dangle from Reno 911.
Our last parade that we saw was Zulu on Mardi Gras. The crowd was back and we could no longer watch it on St. Charles Avenue since it was lined with paid bleachers. We watched Zulu on Canal and I was able to captured some good pictures and video. King Zulu 2009 is one of the most handsome royalty in the history of all Mardi Gras’ Krewes. It was only fitting to have a king who is young and vivacious for the 100 years anniversary of Zulu.
LINK TO VIDEO OF MARDI GRAS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRDyy6hW5YQ
