What is Mardi gras celebration about?  What to do on mardi gras day?
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Party, party, party!!!  It is a pagan holliday where people get very drunk and act like wild animals.  It is also called Fat Tuesday.  It is the Tuesday just before Lent or Ash Wednesday, the Catholic holliday where people promise to give up something they really enjoy for 40 days till Easter.  It is most popularly celebrated in New Orleans.  There is a carnival atmosphere where people get very intoxicated in the streets of New Orleans.  Guys buy beaded necklaces and give them to girls for flashing their breasts.  \n\nFor me as a Christian, I think it is kinda sad.  I look forward to celebrating Easter as the time when Christ died for me and rose again.  I think that a devout Catholic should be ashamed of themself if they were to go out and act like this, then go to confession, followed by Ash Wednesday where they make a "sacrifice" to show how much they love Him.
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it means fat tuesday, it originated in france.  acyually, it was a pagan celebration, kindof like todays in Louisiana.  It was the day before ash wednesday, which is today.  it was origannally earlier in the month, but when the christians came they moved it, it is now used to party before the 40 days of lent
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You mean OTHER than the religious significance? (HOLY DAY=HOLIDAY)\n\nTo be with the one's you love and enjoy some good times. (And remember, if it isn't a good time, it's a good story!!)  ;-)
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Mardi Gras\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n(Redirected from Mardi gras)\nJump to: navigation, search\nFor Mardi Gras in New Orleans, see New Orleans Mardi Gras. For other carnival season celebrations see the article on Carnival. For the 1972 album, see Mardi Gras (album). For the British extortionist known as the "Mardi Gra bomber" see Edgar Pearce. \nMardi Gras (French for "Fat Tuesday") is the day before Ash Wednesday, and is also called "Shrove Tuesday" or "Pancake Day". It is the final day of Carnival (English:IPA: /kaɹnɨvəl/ and Romance languages:IPA: /karnival/). It is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent. The feast should not be confused with the Polish Fat Thursday.\n\n\n\n\nContents [hide]\n1 Dates \n2 Locations \n2.1 United States \n2.1.1 Louisiana \n2.1.1.1 New Orleans \n2.1.1.2 Lafayette \n2.1.1.3 Elsewhere in Louisiana \n2.1.2 Saint Louis \n2.1.3 Mobile \n2.1.4 Pensacola \n2.1.5 Galveston \n2.1.6 Port Arthur \n2.1.7 San Diego \n2.1.8 San Luis Obispo \n2.2 Newfoundland \n2.3 Brazil \n2.4 Caribbean \n2.5 Mexico \n2.6 Belgium \n2.7 Sydney \n3 External links \n \n\n\n[edit]\nDates\nThe date can vary from February 3 to March 9 in non-leap years or February 4 to March 9 in leap years. Like Lent, the date is dependent on that of Easter.\n\nMardi Gras falls on the following dates in the following years:\n\n2006 - February 28 \n2007 - February 20 \n2008 - February 5 \n2009 - February 24 \n2010 - February 16 \n2011 - March 8 \n2012 - February 21 \n2013 - February 12 \n2014 - March 4 \n[edit]\nLocations\n \nFloat-making in New OrleansPerhaps the cities most famous for their Mardi Gras celebrations include Rio de Janeiro, Venice, New Orleans, and Cologne. Many other places have important Mardi Gras celebrations as well. The carnival is an important celebration in most of Europe, and in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.\n\n[edit]\nUnited States\nWhile not observed nationally throughout the United States, a number of cities and regions in the country have notable celebrations.\n\nMardi Gras arrived in North America with the LeMoyne brothers, Iberville and Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiana.\n\nThe explorers eventually found the mouth of the Mississippi River on March 3, 1699, Mardi Gras of that year. They made camp a few miles upriver, just south of New Orleans, named the spot Point du Mardi Gras and partook in a spontaneous party. This is often referred to as North America's first Mardi Gras.\n\nCarnival celebrations became an annual event highlighted by lavish balls and masked spectacles. Some were small, private parties with select guest lists, while others were raucous, public affairs.\n\nRecently Mardi Gras has taken root in several major cities in the USA as the event contributes to help local economies bring revenues.\n\n[edit]\nLouisiana\n[edit]\nNew Orleans\nMain article: New Orleans Mardi Gras\n\n \nCostumed musicians, French Quarter, New OrleansNew Orleans Mardi Gras is particularly well-known, often called "the greatest free show on earth". The celebrations draw many tourists to the city in addition to the celebrating locals for the parties and parades.\n\nMardi Gras came to New Orleans with the earliest French settlers. New Orleans developed new traditions, including Krewes such as the Krewe du Vieux, the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, and the famous Rex parade, in addition to Mardi Gras Indians and king cake parties.\n\nThere are as many as 60 Krewes that have parades in the greater New Orleans area. Officially, the Mardi Gras season, more properly called Carnival, starts at the end of the twelfth day of Christmas. Most parades, balls and other festivities occur on weeknights and weekends in the 2-week period before Mardi Gras Day. Though each parade is unique, there are certain commo
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Congratulations on  your birthday. Mine is Sunday. As for what you could do: what are some things you really like to do? Do them (any of the things you really like to do). Go to a nice place to eat? Go shopping and buy something special. Any special activity you like, but don't get to do much? Do that. Treat yourself in a really good way. Hope you have a great day!
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New Orleans' Mardi Gras revelers will spend today downing Hurricanes, gawking at naked flesh, and begging paraders for colored beads with the traditional plea, "Throw me something, mister!" How did the bead-throwing custom begin?\n\nThe first recorded instances of Mardi Gras paraders tossing souvenirs to the crowd date back to the 1840s, when revelers costumed as aristocrats threw out baubles and sugar-coated almonds. Other, less savory characters preferred "trick" to "treat" and pelted onlookers with an assortment of dirt, flour, and quicklime. The dissemination of handouts—or "throws," in Mardi Gras parlance—is widely believed to have derived from festival customs in Renaissance Europe, where pre-Lenten carnivals often involved projectiles (hurled about after villagewide ale-and-mead binges). Some historians theorize that the tradition has roots in a pagan post-winter ritual, during which lucky peasants who'd survived the cold months celebrated by throwing milled grain into the fields—an offering of gratitude to the deity (or deities) who had given them enough food to last.\n\nGlass beads did not become a New Orleans Mardi Gras staple until the 1880s, after Anglo-American "krewes" had formed to organize the loose-knit festivities. Legend has it that the first parade participant to use beads was a man dressed up as Santa Claus; the ornamental strands were such a hit that other krewes picked up on the ritual. By 1900, when at least 100,000 tourists a year flocked to the Crescent City for Mardi Gras, beaded throws were ubiquitous.\n\nContinue Article\nwhy you fly national\n\nToday's plastic-or-aluminum beads have earned substantial notoriety for their role in a sexual bartering system; women often bare their breasts for a strand or two. (And sometimes go the Full Monty for a particularly enticing throw.) Despite claims that this custom dates back decades, a 1996 paper in the academic journal Social Forces could trace the beads-for-nudity movement only back to the 1970s.\n\nBonus Explainer: A krewe known as "Zulu" has become famous for handing out (not throwing) Mardi Gras coconuts in lieu of beads. The practice ceased briefly in the 1980s, owing to liability concerns—no insurance company would cover Zulu, fearing that an errant coconut might dent a merrymaker's skull. Zulu leaders appealed to the Louisiana state legislature, pointing out that beads and other Mardi Gras trinkets were exempted from liability laws. In 1987, then-Governor Edwin Edwards signed the "Coconut Bills," adding Zulu's heavy, oblong handouts to the list.
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Usually the parties are on the 4th of July, and end about dusk so people can go see fireworks elsewhere.  Usually it is a picnic and make sure there is shade if it is outside.  don't forget chairs or blankets to sit on.
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Infant Mystics Parade\n"Royal Purple" Infant Mystics Parade, Royal Street, Mardi Gras 2000 ©2000 rachelpages...\nhttp://www.rachelpages.com/im4a.html \n\n \nMobile Mardi Gras\nLarge image gallery of Mardi Gras in Mobile, AL including parades and Mobile architecture.\nhttp://www.rachelpages.com/mardigras.html \n\n \nMemories of Mobile Mardi Gras\n02-06-05 Mystics of Time ... 02-07-05 Joe Cain ... 02-09-05 Infant Mystics ... 02-09-05 Mardi Gras Day ... 02-10-05 Mardi Gras News ... 03-13-05...\nhttp://www.mardigraslady.com/mymardigraspics.html \n\n \nChina & Taiwan Manufacturers - AsianNet Global Suppliers - China...\n...experiencemardigras ... 1882 Order of Myths.....Legendary Lore of Norseland Infant Mystics.....Great Lives Country/Region: North Europe...\nhttp://www.asiannet.com/info.php?mID=13922&Case=1&searchwords=Fan&CountryName=&countrywords=&pages=4 \n\n \nInfant Mystics Mardi Gras Parade - Alabama Bureau of Tourism &\nSearch Term. SEARCH. Press Room. Events. Home > Events > Infant Mystics Mardi Gras Parade. Infant Mystics Mardi Gras Parade...\nhttp://www.touralabama.org/events/details.cfm?id=4209 \n\n \nMobile Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau > About Mobile > Mardi...\nInfant Mystics Parade 6:30 pm Tuesday, February 28 Mardi Gras Day FAT TUESDAY!\nhttp://www.mobile.org/ab_mardigras_sched.php \n\n \nWelcome to the Mobile Alabama Police Department\nFebruary 27, 2006 KING FELIX, FLORAL, MLK CHILDREN'S, MONDAY NIGHTER MYSTICS, NORTHSIDE MERCHANTS, INFANT MYSTICS February 26, 2006...\nhttp://www.cityofmobile.org/html/departments/police/index.shtml \n\n \nAlabama Events - Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel\nFeb 27, 2006 Infant Mystics Mardi Gras Parade (Mobile) - Feb 27, Mobile Infant Mystics Mardi Gras Parade 800-5-MOBILE, 251-208-2000. 6:30...\nhttp://www.touralabama.org/calendar/2002-flea.html \n\n \nGuide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern...\n...a program from the "Sixth Anniversary of Infant Mystics" pageant, location unknown, 9 February 1875;\nhttp://www.lexis-nexis.com/cispubs/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantj7.htm \n\n \nCelebrate Mardi Gras in SouthCoastUSA\nLundi Gras or Fat Monday, February 7, features The Infant Mystics Parade as everyone gears up for Fat Tuesday, the big day parades.\nhttp://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/12/prweb189419.htm
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What's not to like?  Irish beer and whiskey ... corned beef and cabbage ... parades ... all very enjoyable things.  Those people who scoff at this type of holiday, probably don't have much fun on other similar holidays.  \n\nI look forward to St. Patrick's Day and Mardi Gras because they mean Spring is just around the corner in my part of the Country.  I'm so tired of the overcast grey of Winter and so looking forward to Spring.  Aren't you?\n\nI raise my glass to any celebration that makes an otherwise ordinary day something special.\n\nSalute!
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An original American Festival is the 4th- of July! Celebrating independence with food, fireworks, song and dance. The second, but most popular summer celebration. Labor Day more or less ends the summer season…but fall and winter are Great celebrations
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Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day when family gather with friends and strangers.  We celebrate what we are thankful for and mostly for the freedom that our forefathers fought so hard for. It is a tradition in my family that after the blessing on the food, everyone gets to say 1 thing they are thankful for and they can't repeat a response that another has already made.  We start with the youngest and move to the oldest. It builds awareness in our family of what we are grateful for.
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Thanksgiving is tradition, thankfulness, and family.\n\nReligious households see Thanksgiving Day as an expression of faith and thankfulness to God at the end of the harvest season. \n\nThanksgiving is a time to gather with your family and or friends and spend the day together.  \nPeople catch up on what's been happening in the lives of their children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and more.\n \nThanksgiving is a holiday for giving thanks, spending time with loved ones and indulging in delicious food that most people only eat once or twice a year.
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it is a day which is celebrated by nation \non this day some historic event had happened\nmight be country got independence,might be country'e constistution is made on this day, or anyother thing that changed the fate of the country.
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The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexicans over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862\nIn mexico is a holiday but not very important as in US.\nCelebrating Cinco de Mayo has become increasingly popular along the U.S.-Mexico border and in parts of the U.S. that have a high population of people with a Mexican heritage. In these areas the holiday is a celebration of Mexican culture, of food, music, beverage and customs unique to Mexico.
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Turn on Macy's Day Parade\nCooking and baking\neat, eat, eat\nFootball~~~~~~GOOOOOOOOOO COWBOYS
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Get together with a special friend/s and have a good time. But be sure that this/these person/people are special. Since you want to have a good time and something to remember. And PLEASE, if you drink, don't drive. This way you be here to enjoy your 21st.
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give yourself a me day. do whatever you want. treat yourself and have fun [: