What great masks you made on Fat Tuesday! Good questions, too.

The parade routes are about 4 or 5 . There are anywhere from 15 to 35 floats in each parade, plus marching bands, horses, motorcycles and dancing groups. The Krewe d'Etat is our favorite because we have some good friends who are in that krewe, but there are definitely some other very fun krewes.

We listened to marching band music, some jazz bands that were on parade floats and heard lots of songs about Mardis Gras.

We ate King Cake, onion rings, shrimp and oysters. There is a lot of good fish and seafood in New Orleans. One specialty is crawfish and we ate some of those. They look like miniature lobsters.

The Little Chef was one of the toys that was thrown from a float. Isn't that funny?

I loved the Elvis's, too. They stand on both sides of the float, so there were probably 20 or so Elvis's on that float.

Yes, you can still see some damage from Hurricane Katrina. There are some houses that are all boarded up and you can tell that nothing has been done to fix them. Some homes were bulldozed down and grass is growing where they stood. It's sad, but the city is slowly coming back.

Adventure Dog also made a new friend, Suzette, a sweet cat who lives at the house where we stayed, with Shawn and Allison. Suzette had an accident recently and is blind.

After Mardis Gras, we went to Audubon Park which has some big, beautiful trees. Then we went to a good seafood restaurant, called "Deanies". Then we went to the airport and flew back to Nashville.