Celebrating Mardi Gras in Yuma, Arizona

This week leading to Fat Tuesday, February 16th is filled with Mardi Gras celebrations.  

Laissez le bon temps rouler!  Let the good times roll!

I decorated the front of

our motorhome with a

Mardi Gras Mask &

Beads.

Eric and I reminisce about Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2013, and Mobile, Alabama in 2018.

Beads decorate our windshield.

Our Snowman wears a Mask &

has a cup for offered drinks

from fellow revelers.

Our RVillage Flag is decorated

with a string of Beads & a Whistle.

The Plush Cactus wears Purple,

Gold & Green Beads - the colors

of Mardi Gras.

Because of the Covid Pandemic, there are no parades in New Orleans this year with decorative Floats.  This year homeowners have decorated their homes as stationary Mardi Gras Floats.  Visitors walk the streets and admire the homes while socially distancing themselves from others.

Decorating is fun, looking at pictures of decorated homes is fun.  What else can Eric and I do to celebrate the last week before Lent?

We can eat Joe Gambino's

Louisiana King Cake!

Eric ordered this Mardi Gras

specialty for us.

We ate a Gambino's King Cake in 2013....  It was the best of the three we ate during our visit.

Eric also ordered Mardi Gras

Masks for us.

The colorful paperwork has

instructions for us & the

History of Mardi Gras.

Eric removes the plastic from

the Cake Box.

This giant ring of Cream Cheese

Cake has frosting & sprinkles.

Eric and I work together to create...

... our beautiful King Cake.

A tiny plastic Baby is hidden 

inside the Cake.

In the 1950s the plastic Baby replaced the ancient tradition of hiding a Bean in the Cake.  I wonder which one of us will find it & on what night during Mardi Gras.

This is too much King Cake for one after-dinner dessert.  That's OK.  We have a plan.

Eric cuts the King Cake

into Quarters.

We plan to freeze them

& eat a section during

Mardi Gras week.

Tonight's Quarter is cut

in half for our first

Mardi Gras Celebration.

Eric found the Baby the second

time he put his fork into

his piece of colorful Cake.

It's very small.

That's why we eat

King Cake carefully.

Memories of past Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Mobile are so vivid we savor the sweet, sugary, Cream Cheese-filled Cake.

Now our Cactus is sporting

a Mardis Gras Mask.

Eric and I have three more special evenings to share before Lent starts on February 17th.

Laissez le bon temps rouler!