TRAVEL: Tour of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras World | #HolidayTravels @MardiGrasWorld
Every year when we go back to New Orleans to visit family, we try to explore one new thing with our kids. This year, we toured Mardi Gras World. What is Mardi Gras? Mardi Gras which means “Fat Tuesday” in French and is the day right before Ash Wednesday. If you’re Catholic, you know what’s it’s like to fast on Ash Wednesday so we tend to fill up Tuesday or “fatten up” the day before thus “Fat Tuesday”. In New Orleans, they take it to a whole other level by running parades for two weeks straight through “Fat Tuesday” and everything completely stops at midnight before Ash Wednesday. The schools … READ MORE >>