Happy Mardi Gras!!!

For those of you who have never been to Mardi Gras, it is like the biggest party you could ever imagine. As the sun rises, people are beginning to get intoxicated and setting up for huge crawfish boils with loud music. Whether you are a 3-day-old infant, or a 90 year old Granny, everyone comes out to enjoy the parades. It is a family event with children riding skateboards and bicycles and playing football in the streets all day while waiting for parades to come. Each float usually has their own DJ and loud music, but there are also marching bands, horses, clowns, fire trucks, police cars and dancers. I'm posting a vidoe of a Mardi Gras parade for those of you who may not live in Louisiana and have never been to a parade. We live in a very small town right outside of a very large town, so this particular parade was a small Coon-Ass (Cajun) version of a Mardi Gras parade.

Dominick had so much fun catching beads, cups, candy, stuffed animals and bubbles; and of course he was quick to make friends with the other children while waiting for the parade to come.