Mardi Gras In The Big Easy

Today is Mardi Gras, in the Big Easy, so come on out and celebrate. You will experience nothing like this before:

Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, is the often raucous end to the pre-Lenten Carnival season. Characterized by family-friendly parades uptown and in the suburbs — and by heavy drinking and lots of near-nudity in the French Quarter — the celebration is highlighted by 12 days of parades and parties.

New Orleans' Fat Tuesday events include Pete Fountain's Half-Fast Walking Club, which starts the day, followed by the Zulu and Rex parades and the meeting of the courts of Rex and Comus Tuesday night.

Party with the revelers and spend lots of money here.