On LaSalle & Rampart Street, the Combo plays with the Mambo beat...
That's from Mardi Gras Mambo a song you hear on the radio every five minutes in New Orleans on the last weekend before the big day. It just gets everyone in the mood & makes you just want to party in the streets. About this time five years ago we were just walking out the door to get breakfast & then grab a spot along Robert E. Lee Circle (to sit there for HOURS!!).
I was just looking through the pictures from the Muses parade (just go here and then find the Muses pictures in the Galleries section), & I'm amazed how they have so quickly put current events (like Mayor Nagin's Chocolate City speech) into their floats. Very funny. The parade floats (if you can still see them...haha) are a huge highlight. In fact one float was throwing out Hershey's kisses. I so want to be there.
The weather on the other hand for Mardi Gras doesn't look so good...rain tonight after 8 PM & rain all day tomorrow, but much better Sunday for Bacchus.
In the Olympics, Sasha Cohen got the silver as everyone in the world should know by now. Tonight is the Champion's gala. Last night we were listening to WWL on the radio in the car (isn't that wild that we get it on AM?) & we accidentally heard that Japan got the gold. Oh well...we didn't know about Sasha though. This morning on the Today show they showed live shots of both Beijing & Vancouver (but not London)...the future Olympic sites. Only 29 months until 2008...(the break after the Winter is much longer than after the Summer unfortunately).
UPDATE: I learned something new: The Greasing of the Poles: No, no, it's not something dirty. At the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter, they have a big ceremony at 10 AM CST on the Friday before Mardi Gras day where a man in a tux & a woman in an antebellum dress present a jar of vaseline to maintenance workers who literally grease up the poles holding up the balconies of the hotel so people don't try to climb up there.
Also, the Today Show will be in New Orleans starting Monday, right after leaving Torino. Apparently there will be about the same number of press people as there are people in the crowd, and from all over the world. Wow.
Finally, congrats to the men's curling team on the Bronze...it was a surprise & well deserved!
I was just looking through the pictures from the Muses parade (just go here and then find the Muses pictures in the Galleries section), & I'm amazed how they have so quickly put current events (like Mayor Nagin's Chocolate City speech) into their floats. Very funny. The parade floats (if you can still see them...haha) are a huge highlight. In fact one float was throwing out Hershey's kisses. I so want to be there.
The weather on the other hand for Mardi Gras doesn't look so good...rain tonight after 8 PM & rain all day tomorrow, but much better Sunday for Bacchus.
In the Olympics, Sasha Cohen got the silver as everyone in the world should know by now. Tonight is the Champion's gala. Last night we were listening to WWL on the radio in the car (isn't that wild that we get it on AM?) & we accidentally heard that Japan got the gold. Oh well...we didn't know about Sasha though. This morning on the Today show they showed live shots of both Beijing & Vancouver (but not London)...the future Olympic sites. Only 29 months until 2008...(the break after the Winter is much longer than after the Summer unfortunately).
UPDATE: I learned something new: The Greasing of the Poles: No, no, it's not something dirty. At the Royal Sonesta Hotel in the French Quarter, they have a big ceremony at 10 AM CST on the Friday before Mardi Gras day where a man in a tux & a woman in an antebellum dress present a jar of vaseline to maintenance workers who literally grease up the poles holding up the balconies of the hotel so people don't try to climb up there.
Also, the Today Show will be in New Orleans starting Monday, right after leaving Torino. Apparently there will be about the same number of press people as there are people in the crowd, and from all over the world. Wow.
Finally, congrats to the men's curling team on the Bronze...it was a surprise & well deserved!
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