Down at the Mardi Gras: Picture Post!

As promised, a picture post!  We'll start out with photos from the Krewe of Xanadu Ball!

(Kay did my hair, isn't it wonderful?)

(Our table setting)

(Gorgeous Kay!!!)

(Me and my mother, belles of the ball! ;))

(Last year's royalty bidding adieu to their reign...)

(Presenting Queen Xanadu 2013...)

(Here she is!)

(In New Orleans, at the Iris Parade)

(Endymion!)

(Our swag caught during parades.  This isn't even all of it.)

(At the parade at Morgan City)

Hope you enjoy the pictures!!!  They can't entirely capture the magic of the Mardi Gras season, but hopefully you can see that a grand time was had by all!