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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Mardi Gras, Known as Carnaval in Rio

Today is "Fat Tuesday" ~ Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras,
the festival New Orleans, Louisiana,
is famous for.
"Gras" is French for fat and "Mardi" is French for Tuesday.
The most joyously unrestrained celebration is held in Rio de Janerio, Brazil. Their celebration is call "Carnaval."

We were lucky enough to take our children to see this when we lived there.





For two centuries it has been an annual event, except during the two World Wars.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Do you know there is a blog called MADE IN BRAZIL. The slogan is "Brazilianizing the world, one day at a time.":

http://madeinbrazil.typepad.com/madeinbrazil/about.html

The contact address is

blogmadeinbrazil@gmail.com They need to be reading your blog.

Also, here is a great entry by a young woman visiting Brazil for her "Semester at Sea." She loved Brazil, of course.

http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/akwonton/semester_at_sea/1202680860.html

Memories ~ Life is a great trip!


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