Kind of sad, but this is one of the few times in the past 25 years or so that I've missed Mardi Gras somewhere along the gulf coast.  I've spent a lot of time ramblin' from Panama City to Pensacola to Perdido Key to Orange Beach to Mobile to Biloxi to N'Orleans to Lake Charles and all the towns in between.  They're all different and they're all the same.  If you've never been to Mardi Gras, it's impossible for you to understand.  Do yourself a favor...make reservations at one of the downtown hotels in Mobile, Alabama from the Saturday before Fat Tuesday through Ash Wednesday.  Enjoy the camraderie, the decadence, the beauty of the old south...understand the phrase "throw me somethin' mister"...fight over cheap beads and moonpies with old women and 6 year olds...find out where the saying "raise cain" comes from.
  Just try it once and you'll understand why I'm sitting here now wishing I was there...it gets in your soul.

     




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