Gallery: Festive party-goers, floats, parades from Mardi Gras 2012

 

Check out photos of festive party-goers, floats, and parades from Mardis Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.

 
February 22, 2012
 
 
 
Revelers play limbo during Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 

Revelers play limbo during Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Photograph by: LEE CELANO, Reuters

 
Revelers play limbo during Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Revelers dance during Mardi Gras festivities on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Women dance near the window in a night club during Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, Louisiana.
A Mardi Gras Indian performs during the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Women dance in baby doll outfits during the Zulu Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, Louisiana.
A drummer performs for a Mardi Gras Indian during the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans.
Members of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club march in the Zulu Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
Two women wearing large plastic buttocks talk with a friend during the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Two women wearing large plastic buttocks talk with a friend during the Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, Louisiana.
People celebrate on Bourbon Street as part of the Mardi Gras celebration in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Members of the Muff-A-Lotta's performance troupe dance with pizza pans during the OrpheusMardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
Members of the 610 Stompers performance troupe perform during the Orpheus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
A drum major for the St. Augustine Marching 100, a local high school marching band, leads the band during the Orpheus Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
A member of the Kolossus performance troupe rides a converted bicycle during the OrpheusMardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
A couple costumed in horse masks dance on Bourbon Street as part of the Mardi Gras celebration in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
A man photographs Mardi Gras participants on Bourbon Street as part of celebrations in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Kamaya Walters of Atlanta, Georgia grabs beads as part of the Mardi Gras celebration in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
The Treme Brass band leads the Red Beans and Rice Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
 
 
 
 
 

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