Happy Ephiphany or Kings Day

Just want to let everyone know that Mardi Gras has officially begun. It begins on the 6th of January and goes til the tuesday before Ash Wednesday, unfortnately this year it starts really early. Parades don't start til the weekend of January 25th but the real big ones are the following wknd of Feb. 1st, however, the best ones start that Wednesday the 30th of January. Here's a webpage with all the schedule of the parades. My favorites are Orpheus(uptown), Muses, and Krewe d'Etat. They are all good but those are my favorites. http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/schedule.html. In commemoration of Kings Day I bought a King Cake from a bakery uptown. It's much better than the King cakes I'd been buying from Haydels. It's from the Laurel Street Bakery on Laurel Street in New Orleans. It was recommended by a friend who knows the owner and it was good. I shared it with my friends the Barrios-Sherwood's who are some of my best friends in the city. Isabel's mom always makes kick ass food.