Let The Good Times Roll is echoing throughout the streets of New Orleans as the annual Mardi Gras celebration gets underway! These people know how to party and they LOVE a parade.
Twelve days of merry making has begun with delicious food, lots of libation and those beads…..buckets of them being thrown from floats as they travel down the streets.
If you can’t make it to New Orleans for this annual event do not worry! St. Mary’s is about to throw their version of Mardi Gras this coming Saturday, March 1st. This may look like a lazy little Southern coastal town at first glance, but these folks throw one heck of a Mardi Gras bash.
Complete with floats and all the other mandatory trimmings for a proper celebration, the fun begins at 7a.m. with the “Color Run”a five kilometer race in which participants are covered with a mixture of non-toxic cornstarch powder and bright colors that bystanders pelt at them as they make their way to a very colorful finish line. Over 100 booths will open at 9:00 with arts, crafts and food of all kinds. At 10:00 the annual parade begins on Osborne Street as crowds fill the sidelines for a more family friendly event than you might find in larger cities.
St. Mary’s has been hosting this lively event for twenty years and this year’s Mardi Gras has all the makings of the best one yet. A masked ball will be held in the evening, adults only, with great music, a cash bar and plenty of entertainment to make the $35.00 admission price well worth it! Tickets are available at the St. Mary’s Visitor’s Center as well as “Once Upon A Bookseller”.
It may not be New Orleans, but Mardi Gras in St. Mary’s is a full day of fun you won’t want to miss! Go and let the good times roll!
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