We arrived in New Orleans during Carnival, the buildup to Mardi Gras. Everything was gold, purple, and green, even the Nepali elephant pants of the type we used to see in Kathmandu.1 (The photo is a bit fuzzy because I dropped my camera at the Stax Museum and the filter shattered; I replaced it in New Orleans but the camera store in New Orleans accidently sold me a “fogglizer” filter, which I didn’t realize until later that morning.) Later that evening, we came across our first Carnival parade, although it turns out to have been for a corporate party—as soon as the parade cleared a bar in the middle of the block, the groups dispersed.
We had a better Carnival experience later that week, albeit with very shaky iPhone capture.
Next: more new Orleans stuff.
- Yes, they are made in Nepal, and they sell for about 6 times the Nepali price. ↩︎