It's time...

..for my wife and I to head down to New Orleans. Flight leaves in a few hours and sister will pick us up at airport. Thought I'd point folks to a couple different sites where they can read up on the different krewes and parades. Most of the New Orleans Local TV stations (WWLTV, WDSU,WGNO) have pages dedicated to Mardi Gras and Carnival. On the Channel 6 WDSU site they have brief video overviews of each krewe as their parade dates approach (hoping they will put one up re: Krewe Of Mid-City sometime before Sunday). Go HERE for link (you have to scroll down to middle of page to find "Video" section). Speaking of Krewe Of Mid-City, the MyNewOrleans.com website picked our parade as one of the best Daytime parades. Go HERE for that article. Well, as they say in the song, I've got my ticket in my hand and I'm goin down to New Orleans!

More Parade Watchin'

Ok. In addition to ParadeCam @ NOLA.com there are a couple other options for watching or tracking the upcoming Mardi Gras parades. To watch the parades you can also go to NO tv station WWLTV's website for live broadcasts. If you have an iPhone ( not sure about Android) yes there is an app for that - actually 2 apps that let you track alot of the parades from beginning to end. The first is the Experience Mardi Gras app from WWLTV. The second is a parade tracker app from NO tv channel 6. Both are free in the iTunes app store. So you can go about your business while you watch & track the Krewe of Mid-City parade. See ya Sunday 2.19 around 11:45 am CST/12:45pm EST/9:45 am PST on ParadeCam.

It's French Quarter Fest Time in New Orleans

Check out festival info here . You can also listen to some live broadcasts via WWOZ and  WWLTV.com is streaming some of the live shows from the Abita Beer Stage. This is largest free music festival in the South with 4 days of music spread over 17+ stages from in the French Quarter and down to the river.