Destin Mardi Gras Parade

JUST ONE MORE FOR THE ROAD

Our view during lunch at AJ's - other direction has even more boats but the photo isn't as good

Terry with her 'throws'

At first I had second thoughts about the Destin Mardi Gras parade considering the bigger ones are over in Mobile where the whole celebration started. Up north, I never realized how folks down here gather for Mardi Gras. Mobile has the first on February 1st and there is a parade somewhere nearby every night for until Fat Tuesday. On that day, ALL the floats from miles around gather in Mobile and the parade starts at 9 in the morning, is shown in the biggest TV station in the area and lasts ALL day - watched some of it last year and couldn't believer it. However, we had a delightful time, obviously collected many 'throws' plus a few that I was able to catch and pass along to nearby youngsters. The parade lasted over 2 hours with floats, bands and lots of spectators.

 A really great Dixieland band with a sax player that was fantastic.












Here is some of the crowd breaking up - as you can see, there were lots of happy people with everyone getting their share of 'throws'

One of the half dozen bands at the parade site.