This was a fun holiday! Yesterday the only thing I really knew about Mardi Gras was it was a huge parade/partying day in New Orleans where people took off their shirts for beads. It's original purpose was actually party driven. Mardi Gras is celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for fat Tuesday because people celebrated and used up the last of their eggs, butter, milk and rich foods before fasting for the next 46 days during Lent.
We started the day with a mock king cake (cinnamon rolls baked into a circle with colored icing). Traditionally a plastic baby is baked into the cake, we used a pin. Eiralynn got it in her piece of cake and was the king (or queen in her case) for the day.
For dinner we had New Orleans style jambalaya with shrimp (which Eira LOVED, who knew?) in our kitchen decorated in the traditional Mardi Gras colors green (for faith), gold (for power) and purple (for justice), beads, masks and horns.
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