I love this, my Mardi Gras days are over, but the memories, and non memories are priceless.
I especially like the the crowd in their tuxedos and $1,000 ball gowns begging for plastic cups.
Nothing else like it.
When I was an undergrad at USM I was friends with a grad student and her husband (late 20s/early 30s)
I brought them down for Endymion and the husband was VERY dubious- his whole vibe reeked if ‘this is dumb, why is everyone nuts about worthless plastic?’
After 4 floats he was in the mix screaming for beads
Mardi Gras is undefeated