Friday, June 8, 2012

Mardi Gras parade in Destin Florida


We went to a Mardi Gras parade in Destin Florida.

Mardi Gras is a celebration beginning after the Christian celebration of Epiphany and ending the day before Ash Wednesday. It is a time of enjoying yourself before Lent.

This was the a ton of fun, watching young and old having fun acting crazy for some plastic beads :) including us.

The traditional colors of Mardi Gras are purple, green and gold. These colors are said to have been chosen by Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch Romanoff of Russia during a visit to New Orleans in 1872, per Wikipedia.




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