This year was my first Mardi Gras ever in New Orleans so I'm far from any sort of expert but here's what I learned from this trip.1. Choose your hotel location based on what you want to see and do. We chose one in the French Quarter two blocks f… more »

The boy didn't get the vacation he wanted, none of it. Instead he got two weeks in February. That totally wrecks all our tentative plans for how we wanted to spend our summer. Instead of letting it go to waste we decided to go to Mardi Gras! So we will… more »