All of my friends eagerly waited for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans.
As planned we started in Raj Kiran's car at around 12 in the noon and reached New Orleans after 2 hours drive. The drive was quite comfortable in his new Mazda6. Raj Kiran is another desi guy, who joined recently in BearingPoint as a sub-contractor. He was graduated from University of New Orleans in the year 2004. So, he is aware of all the roads and routes in New Orleans.
After meeting Raj's friend, Siva Reddy at University of New Orleans, we went to Lake Pontchartain. After a brief photo session, we started to "International Bazaar" where we shopped for more than an hour. Almost every month we purchase our groceries (mostly Indian stuff) at IB.
After meeting Raj's friend, Siva Reddy at University of New Orleans, we went to Lake Pontchartain. After a brief photo session, we started to "International Bazaar" where we shopped for more than an hour. Almost every month we purchase our groceries (mostly Indian stuff) at IB.
Once we were done with our shopping every one realized that they are starving (nobody had anything in the morning as they got up from their beds at around 11 AM). Raj wheeled us to a Indian Restaurant called "Salt-n-Peppers" in the downtown.
After a long time, everyone had revitalized their taste buds with some spicy Indian food. I had couple of Aloo Parathas with Chana Masala as the side dish. Yaseen Bhai and Raj had the Hyderabadi special, "Goat Biryani". We had enough food for the next two days.
We headed to Bourbon Street and was lucky to find a parking place for our car. After parking the car we took 15 mins to identify the important things to carry on the Bourbon Street. We parked our car in the public car parking lot right behind the "Jax Brewery" Building. We were happy that we found some space to park our car. It is next to impossible to find a parking place during a Mardi Gras weekend in the downtown.
We finally entered Bourbon Street and saw the "flow" of crowd moving in all directions. We saw people in different and weird dresses through out the street. Most of them are decorated with lots of "beads". Those beads are very colorful and are in different sizes. The whole street was resonating with different flavors of music. People dressed themselves in the most weirdest way possible.
We headed to Bourbon Street and was lucky to find a parking place for our car. After parking the car we took 15 mins to identify the important things to carry on the Bourbon Street. We parked our car in the public car parking lot right behind the "Jax Brewery" Building. We were happy that we found some space to park our car. It is next to impossible to find a parking place during a Mardi Gras weekend in the downtown.
We finally entered Bourbon Street and saw the "flow" of crowd moving in all directions. We saw people in different and weird dresses through out the street. Most of them are decorated with lots of "beads". Those beads are very colorful and are in different sizes. The whole street was resonating with different flavors of music. People dressed themselves in the most weirdest way possible.
We stepped into the most famous club on the Bourbon street, "Razzoos". They charged $5 per head and stamped some letters on our left palm. We really had fun for the next one hour with the best Hip Hop music I ever heard. The most funniest part of our visit to the club is that one big fat white lady started rubbing her back on my back and I slowly moved away and let Amar (my friend) step into my place and he enjoyed it more than anything on that day ;).
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