Travels with Snowbirds 2015, It's all about just pictures

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February 13th 2015

Published: March 8th 2015

February 2015, New Orleans, All About Mardi Gras Pictures This is the first of two blogs I will post with pictures. These are pictures of the Mardi Gras trip. The next one I will work on has the rest of the pictures I took. Due to lack of decent wifi, I was not able to post pictures as I wrote the blogs. Now that I am home, problem resolved. YOU WILL HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM TO SEE THE ... Read Full Entry

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King and his jester

Now this one I got a good picture of as he was stopped in front of our viewing stand for quite a while, due to a flat tire on a float ahead of him.

More light carrier

Thursday Float

Tractors pull floats, and bear the name of their float.

Each float follows the theme of the particular Krewe. Confusing.

This 'float' wasn't a float at all

They just carried beautifully graceful butterflies and birds.

More Butterflies

And yet more butterflies

Shoes

One all female Krewe's theme was Shoes. Dues for this year included 50 pairs of decorated shoes to give out as throwaways. We left before this group got to us, it was too cold and windy

The Cathedral

The Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, also called St. Louis Cathedral, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and among the oldest cathedrals in the United States

Mississippi looking south

note how low the water is. New Orleans is 100 miles up stream from the Gulf. There are no tides. It is just this low because it is winter. Once the snow starts to melt in the far north, this portion of the river will almost be at flood stages.

The Natchez Riverboat

We took a '3 hour cruise' with lunch. Good narration, lousy food.

Mississippi looking north

Caliope

A grandmotherly woman gave a 15 minute calliope concert prior to boarding. It was actually kind of neat

Morial Convention Center

I spent many hours in here when I was recruiting as a vendor at an extremely large trade show. It is so large it now extends underneath the bridge. It has to be a mile long.

Krewe Carrolton King

Our tour guide, Greg, is a native New Orleanean. He belongs to Krewe Carrolton. Their parade was last week. He arranged for the King, Queen, knights and maids to show us their wonderful costumes. Remember, each person must pay for their own costumes.

Maids.

My RTG peeps will remember some of our gowns looked like these. Large hoops underneath, I checked. The hats are like those of our Dames Parade.

Krewe Carrolton king and queen.

Their trains were 20 feet long and appeared to be very heavy.

knights

Joan and knights

I asked them why they wore the cover over their face, and they said just tradition - so they could have a good time and no one would know who they were.

Maid

Kat and Joanne

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