The WBCCI Airstream Club's 2010 Mardi Gras Rally in New Orleans, LA
Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Airstreamers waiting for the opening of the Mardi Gras Rally
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The hosts of the rally show us their Mardi Gras parading skills
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Next was a King Cake party. There were four plastic babies in the cake. Whomever received the pieces with the babies were appointed to the royal court.
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Our new friend, Dave, celebrates his Birthday at Vaughn's, where we went to see Kermit Ruffins play.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Kermit Ruffins playing at Vaughn's
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Ann with our friends, Mike & Chris, at Vaughn's.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The entrance to Vaughn's. It was a lot better looking inside... :-)
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Ann & I waiting for our cooking lesson at the New Orleans School of Cooking.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Our instructor shows us how to make Pralines (pronounced praw-leans).
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The start of the Muses parade. The Muses are an all female krewe.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Airstreamers ready to go!
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: ustom made Mardi Gras masks for sale at the French Market
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: A VW Art Car
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: They throw a heck of a Halloween party where Ann used to work, so she thought this was an appropriate shot...
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The Steamboat Natchez
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The Natchez has a real steam calliope.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Mississippi River traffic
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Downtown New Orleasn as seen from the river
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The Endymanian parade waits to start
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The crowd checking out the floats
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: A member of the royal court. She will have to stand like that for over four hours.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Each of the major parades have at least six marching bands.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Getting the beads ready
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: You wouldn't believe the amount of trash these parades generate.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The ladders with the boxes on them are for the kids to sit in when they watch the parades.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Mardi Gras World at Kern Studios, where many of the parade floats are constructed.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: One of the many "above ground" cemeteries in New Orleans.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Basin Street Station
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The Krewe of Tin Cans masquerade ball.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Last year's King & Queen
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The 2010 Krewe of Tin Cans Royal Court
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The 2010 King & Queen
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The National WW-II Museum - A Higgens landing craft. They were made out of plywood.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The Lundi Gras celebration
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: John "Papa" Gros & the Krewe du Karnival
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Rex, King of Carnival, addresses the crowd
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: King Rex and King Zulu meet for the first time
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: A Dixieland Jazz Band in a German Bar - Only in New Orleans!
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Waiting for the Mardi Gras Day parades
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Pete Fountain's Half Fast Walking Club. This is the 50th year that they have walked in the parade.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Pete Fountain
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagan
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The start of the Zulu parade. The Zulus are a mainly African American Krew that originally marched to mock the Rex parade.
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The organizer of the Airstream Mardi Gras Rally, Lonnie Carver
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Lonnie shows off her "coconuts"
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: J. J. pauses for some refreshments
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: A guy has to keep warm somehow!
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: The "Truck Parade" is where neighborhood groups get together and decorate flat bed trailers, which are then paraded. There were over 100 of these!
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Mardi Gras Rally - 2010: Some people will go to any length to get beads...
