The neighbors

New Orleans, LA
Mardi Gras 2008

                

                

They live up the street.  They're out there pushing the bed around with a different theme every year.  This one from a couple of years ago might be my favorite so far.

Costume party

New Orleans, LA
Mardi Gras 2010

Quite possibly the best costume I saw all day.

        

Shadow Shot Sunday

 New Orleans, LA
Mardi Gras 2010, part two
Part one can be found here.

The kids...

    

              

          

       The adults...

                

            

                

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Shadow Shot Sunday

New Orleans, LA
 Mardi Gras 2010, part one

This is what my street-corner looked like Mardi Gras morning.  It was a bright sunny day.  Shadows everywhere.

          
            

                                    

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Ash Wednesday

The evidence around the house this morning indicates that we had a pretty successful Mardi Gras.

              

Costume stuff and bags of beads in the living room:

        

          

My room.  At least I drank a bottle of water before taking off my costume and throwing it all over the place.  Or maybe it was after.  I'd been wearing it for sixteen hours, including a full bar shift.  It really needed to come off.

      

I was having a really hard time hanging up my dress, so I just shoved it in the closet.  It needs to be dry-cleaned anyway.  At least the wig was in decent shape:

          

    
        
This is where I woke up:

            

My room-mate's bed is extremely comfortable, and I like to steal it whenever possible.  It was covered with costume stuff, I guess they had been home at some point to change.  I was too tired to even put it in the other room, so I moved it to the side, crawled in, and basically didn't move until he came home.  Eleven hours later.

Happy Mardi Gras!