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At some point I ended up actually dancing on a bar top, showing 3 girls from Minnesota how to do the Time Warp. So I had total strangers wishing me happy birthday all day, and people were giving me money and buying me drinks. It was the same year as the Zulu Krewe's 100th anniversary, which got me one of their coconuts - and someone else also tipped me off to the dollar bill on your shirt. :-) The Mardi Gras trip I did take was also - well, it was close enough to my birthday that I cheated and said that it was that day (I was only off by 24 hours, let's pretend that it was the day my mother had gone into labor, eh?). So to recap, We slept in the French Quarter of New Orleans a few weeks after the Saints won the Super Bowl and directly before Mardi Gras. Posted by Twain Device at 10:02 AM on Octo So the next time we go around Mardi Gras maybe we'll get up early enough to see the Skull and Bones gang.

Since then New Orleans has become a regular vacation spot for us. Added to us having previously(luckily) booked a room in a historic hotel in the French Quarter. We then realized that if the Saints won, we would be going in between that and the start of the Mardi Gras. We not being Handegg people we hadn't really put the timing together until the last week in January. Score, that would be super neat to see.įast forward another month or so and the Saints end up going to the Super Bowl. No other timing was considered.įast forward a month and we realized that we would be there directly to the start of Mardi Gras weekend.

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We planned this trip based solely on when she would have a free time from nursing school and that was our criteria. Within 48 hours we went from home to NOLA and back again. She was still in school so it was a 2 day trip. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.So a few years ago, my then girlfriend(now wife) planned a trip to the New Oreleans. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture a textbook about gender and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. They sing songs, bang on doors, and play-threaten their neighbors. Up before most residents, members of the gang cause a ruckus. We let you know, if you keep doing what you’re doing, you’re gonna be with us. The bone gang represents people… waking people up about what they’re doing in life, if they don’t change their lifestyle. Their message is to “warn away from violence” - says the North Side Chief, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes - especially young people, and especially gun and domestic violence. Baling wire (to construct the shape of the head) along with flour and water to bind together old newspapers, create the head itself. At, Sharon Litwin writes:īecause the origins of the Gang were with working class folk who had little money for silks and satins, the skeleton suits are made from everyday items and simple fabrics. Members of the gang dress up like ominous skeletons. It’s a 200 year old tradition belonging to African American residents of the city. On Mardi Gras mornings before dawn, members of the North Side Skull and Bones Gang prowl the streets.