The Mardi Gras parades literally begin in January and go in full force until Mardi Gras at the end of February. We purposely stayed in New Orleans to go see the parade last night. We'll be hitting the road on Monday and this is our last hurrah in New Orleans!
I learned a lot about the Mardi Gras parades on my tour of the float factory, but none of these floats were a part of this parade!
Each parade is themed and is organized by a "Krewe", and and there are many, many Krewes, some have been around for a long time, others not so long. (Krewe of Zulu, Krewe of Rex, Krewe of Morpeus, Krewe of Athena, just to name a few)
Last night's parade was run by Krewe du Vieux which has been around since 1987.
The parade rolled through the Marigny, French Quarter with its charmingly rude, crude and socially unacceptable assortment of mini floats and costumes, set to the theme "Crass Menagerie" and they made no bones about dragging President Trump along with them.
The streets were crowded with people, and this isn't even Mardi Gras!
It was an interesting parade to say the least - nothing like I've ever seen before.
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