Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday...whatever it's called, it's a day that brings back lots of good memories for me.
When I was a junior in high school I had what was at that time one of the more exciting experiences of my life...going to New Orleans and helping the Zulu crewe prepare for the Mardi Gras parade.
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to get an invite to be in the Carnival parade in Rio with one of the samba schools. The costume included lots of white feathers, a huge high hat, white boots, and something else related to the Norwegian flag. Of course I looked ridiculous but so did everyone else but wow did we have fun parading through the specially built samba stadium, the sambadrome, at 2am in the morning to the cheers and sreams of hundreds of thousands of people. (My cousin is there now and I'm so jealous!)
Below is AP footage from this years parade in Rio...
For more images from the BBC of this years Carnival in Rio, click here.
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Wow, did not know that!
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