NOLA, Monday (Feb 12, 2024)

Did I mention that there are often horses in the parades?
These have gilded hooves!

NOLA, Sunday (Feb 11, 2024)

Even the grocery store fare is different. This shelf is at the small grocery closest to Eric's house:

Top shelf: crab/corn shrimp soup, seafood gumbo.

Second shelf: banana pudding, chocolate pudding, pecan cobbler, peach cobbler, blackberry cobbler. 

Eric, beside our first parade of the day:

Lisa at a crawfish boil along a parade route:

A tree festooned with toilet paper (specially designed and distributed for the purpose of launching into trees thus), with luchadores parading below: 

NOLA, Saturday (Feb 10, 2024)

 A mid-parade selfie. Notice the kids on ladders behind us - this is standard equipment for the well-prepared parent in New Orleans!

Here is an illuminated (oversized) man in the Endymion parade:

NOLA, Thursday (Feb 8, 2024)

Eric found an amazing purple jacket in a thrift store.
This thing has TAILS!