NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS
JUST WHAT IS MARDI GRAS?
Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday” and specifically refers to the day before
Ash Wednesday.
The “Festival of Carnival” is all the celebrating that happens
between January 6th
and ends at midnight on Mardi...
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NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS
JUST WHAT IS MARDI GRAS?
Mardi Gras is French for “Fat Tuesday” and specifically refers to the day before
Ash Wednesday.
The “Festival of Carnival” is all the celebrating that happens
between January 6th
and ends at midnight on Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday.
It is a season of parades, beads, masquerade balls, and king cake parties.
People go sexually crazy during this days.
women stand on the side of the
street yelling to men who go by.
they scream to get bead necklaces which they
get as long as they show their boobs, in the mardi gras carnival people wear
masks to have sex without being recognized.
The traditional colors of mardi gras are purple, green, and gold.
The main party street of new orleans is bourbon street, were all the fun takes
place, this is a street full of jazz bars, strip clubs, music, bourbon and fun
Mardi Gras tradition in New Orleans started on the banks of the Mississippi
River in the early 1700’s and the first parade was in 1857, however
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