Mardis Gras

Mardis Gras. I hadn’t known a thing about this holiday until I took a trip last week down to New Orleans, Louisiana to visit my father. This holiday is supposedly a religious Christian holiday to celebrate and feast before they fast for like forty days. By the looks of it to me, it is just another holiday for Christians and people to drink and party. I have nothing against this of course! I absolutely had a blast walking down Bourbon St. getting beads thrown at my head from above and being around thousands of crazy awesome partiers! There were some very exotic people that went all out on their Mardis Gras celebration stuff! I ended up getting one fo those multicolored polo striped Mardis Gras t-shirts with a hood from Wal-Mart. Down south was just nuts! They had at least one parade every day for like a whole month but I was only there for a week but still! There were a lot of women (and men) that would flash their stuff to the people up in balconies so that they would throw them some beads. People were just having fun and I really enjoyed it! I am a partier myself and to be around that many people who also love to party was absolutely fantastic! I can’t wait to go down again! I had also gone to one of my father’s wife’s children’s parades and received a ton of beads! Like, no joke, there were probably a ton of beads around my neck by the time I got home! The whole time I was down there it was just fun the whole time. There was rarely ever a time where I was either bored or just wasn’t having fun. I was extremely exhausted though by the end of each night! New Orleans, Louisiana is definitely the place to be for Mardis Gras partiers!

New Orleans, Louisiana

Okay, so I recently took a week off of school, in order to go down to visit my father. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. I hadn’t seen him in five years. The last time we had seen one another, he had blown up on both my brother and I, saying that he wanted us to forget that we ever had a father. He was very selfish in the past. My brother and I were very, nervous to say the least to go down and see him. We had no idea what to expect. The trip ended up going very well. My father has changed so much in the past five years. He pulled me aside to talk for a few hours. Basically, his whole speech was about how he has changed and how his new wife has changed him for the better. She is religious, smart, and very kind. She seemed like one of those very Christian qualitied people that will do absolutely anything for anybody else but themselves and want nothing in return. I think having my father married to her for the past year has changed his mind set and how to go about life and his actions. I think one of my favorite parts about going down to visit my father was when we went to a bar to play billiards. This was a very fond memory from my past that I knew about my father. I knew that he loved playing billiards and my brother and I also love to play too. Just that moment when I realized that what was happening was real and that I was with my father and enjoying that moment with him. I didn’t want that to end. I wanted to play pool with him all night. I wanted the father-son bonding to continue for a lifetime and for that I’ll continue later.