We are a family that LOVES Mardi Gras. You grow to love it in a different way when it includes kids (and a very sober way when you are pregnant). Regardless we love it. I pulled out last years beads and put them in a glass bowl for a quick, effortless centerpiece. Elle loves the beads! We mentally prepared her (assuming she doesn't recall it from last year) all week about the parade. The fire trucks, horses, music, floats and BEADS!! By Wednesday she was clapping and holding her hands in the air screaming beads. Too cute.
Friends of ours got a room at Gaidos, which is an excellent place for parade watching. We have watched the parade from their for several years now and it is so convienent. A relatively clean bathroom, a place to sit and put your pregnant feet up, pizza, tortellini salad a la EK, good friends, and a place to shelter your child who is all of the sudden petrified of fireworks. It worked out beautifully. Now Elle is super ready for next weekend-a true pro. The only thing that will be missing are the NJ Buerglers. I am more sad than is healthy about that.
Uncle Andy lives on 25th street and is ahving a HUGE blow out this year for the Momus parade. Once again, we will have a bathroom etc. Makes things so much more convienent. We have lots of family on the floats again this year so we are hoping to score lots of good beads. Wish us luck. Happy Mardi Gras. Pics of last weekend to come in next post. Hopefully we will get good pics of this weekend as well.
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