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It's Mardi Gras, so let's party

Posted Feb 24th 2009 4:20PM by Connie Madon (RSS feed)
Filed under: Good news

I am currently way down in New Orleans where the Mardi Gras celebration is underway. And for right now, today, there is no recession. Thousands are gathering here for this, the last day before the Lenten season. Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday: you eat and enjoy and party till you drop.

There will be parades, with many hundreds in costumes. One convention organizer said: " We've delivered more beer in the last couple of weeks than ever before" and "the bigger bars here, they're getting 100, 200 cases at a time."

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