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While things will get started in earnest this Friday Mardi Gras is two weeks from today.

Having been born here I for one will be glad when all these fools go home. Don?t get me wrong it is a great party everyone should experience at least once but it gets old after a while. Especially once the kids are grown.
 
(quoted from post at 08:52:44 02/11/20) While things will get started in earnest this Friday Mardi Gras is two weeks from today.

Having been born here I for one will be glad when all these fools go home. Don?t get me wrong it is a great party everyone should experience at least once but it gets old after a while. Especially once the kids are grown.

I like the Cajun and Zydeco music but you don't have to wait for Mardi Gras for that, I guess. Neville Brothers from down that way? I know Louis Armstrong was a New Orleans native. Fats Domino, too. I'm into the music, the celebration not so much.
 
We were there for fat Tuesday a few years ago. The temp was 39 and it was drizzling. We northerners were cold but everyone at the big party didn't seem cold. LOL Anyway, I would like to go to the festivities again when the temp is more reasonable. We stay with an old family friend on the south side of the river not far from the French Quarter so it's just a short drive from her house to the ferry and a moderate walk after that. Usually one of her sons is in town to show us around. This year we will be within 300 miles of New O but our schedule will take us other places.
 
That is one thing visitors do not realize when we say
it is 35 or 40 degrees how cold that really is when
you factor in the humidity. It is a cut you to the bone
cold.

But it has been warm this year. It is 80 degrees right
now.

?on the south side of the (Mississippi) river?

LOL. I will just let some of these guys that have
never been here chew on that one for a while.
 
I was at Mardi Gras once, many years ago. I was in my 20's. I must have been a boring person even then. I didn't see anything that would make me want to go back.
 
My wife and I was there for a week in 1979 for a convention of American Assocication of School Administrators. We enjoyed a lot of foods. The police were on strike so the big parade outside did ot happen. We were treated to an indoor parade, Frankie Avalon was the parade marshall.
When we left to go home or flight was delayed because Atlanta was iced in. Atlanta, then as now, was the gateway to the south. We were taken off the plane and it was going to fly direct to Boston with that state's school administrators. Then, they put us back on the plane and took us to Boston. Now, we are already late and going to Boston, not Detroit. In Boston we were given food vouchers for airport food (yuck).
Finally, we were boarded on a flight to Detroit. A champaign-dinner flight!
We arrived in Detroit more than 6 hours late, stuffed and "happy"?
We have never been back.
PS We were in Atlanta, in 1978 with return home weather problems and Anaheim, Cal. in 1980 and return home weather problems. That was our last convention.
 
Did Mardi Gras a few times while stationed in Pensacola back in the early ?70?s. It was OK but never liked being surrounded by that many people. Saw some wild stuff so I can say BTDT, wouldn?t do it again. But said that about Stugis also.
 
Enjoyed it when I lived there, the River Ridge area, during the mid to late 80's when I worked at Security Van Lines. Dont care for it now. I do think everyone should experience it once.
 
(quoted from post at 14:20:36 02/11/20) That is one thing visitors do not realize when we say
it is 35 or 40 degrees how cold that really is when
you factor in the humidity. It is a cut you to the bone
cold.

But it has been warm this year. It is 80 degrees right
now.

?on the south side of the (Mississippi) river?

LOL. I will just let some of these guys that have
never been here chew on that one for a while.

Yep, she lives about as far south of he river as she does west of the river. The first time I was in New O I was glad the van had a compass because that darned river messed me up. I finally figured it out when I looked at the place on Google earth.
 
John I live in MI, and was in the Houston area loading one time in the winter about now. Was in the low 30's Like to froze to death with winter clothes on. Was warmer in WY at 0 than in Huston. I know what you are talking about with the humidity.
 
I agree with you. As a Cajun ( Desendants from ST.Martinsville and Crowley/Rayne) I know how to pass a good time. Here in the Beaumont/Port Arthur Texas area we have copy kat Mardi gras in every surrounding city. We even have cities bidding on who will have the Mardi gras celebration, parade and festival.It surely gets old fast.But maybe I'm just getting old. Lol
 
John thats the one. We moved pretty much anything that would fit in a truck. Without a doubt we were the best office movers around. We could move a large business in town overnight.
 

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