TODAY is Shrove Tuesday....
Wednesday the beginning of Lent
The terms "Mardi Gras" (pronounced /ˈmɑrdi grɑː/, "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany and ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday" (in ethnic English tradition, Shrove Tuesday), referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which started on Ash Wednesday.
One year in our travelin' days we happened to be in San Luis Obispo for Mardi Gras.
The college town really put on a parade where the people all dressed up in costumes and from the floats threw necklaces to the crowd. We caught quite a few. Later we went over to the campus for a choral production put on by the different choirs and singing groups.
FANTASTIC!!!!
The terms "Mardi Gras" (pronounced /ˈmɑrdi grɑː/, "Mardi Gras season", and "Carnival season", in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany and ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday" (in ethnic English tradition, Shrove Tuesday), referring to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season, which started on Ash Wednesday.
One year in our travelin' days we happened to be in San Luis Obispo for Mardi Gras.The college town really put on a parade where the people all dressed up in costumes and from the floats threw necklaces to the crowd. We caught quite a few. Later we went over to the campus for a choral production put on by the different choirs and singing groups.
FANTASTIC!!!!
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