Baldwin County Al Celebrations

Baldwin County AL celebrations are the bomb!  Baldwin County is a great place to live, if only for its celebrations.  There are all the normal holidays — Christmas, Easter, 4th of July — and then there are the events particular to the region.

Of course, everybody gets pretty excited when there’s a Jubilee.  Free food for the work, all the best seafood in the country, and the fun of "fishing," if you can call it that, create a true party atmosphere.  But the Baldwin County AL party atmosphere is rooted in the ability to really party.  The ability to really party is developed and honed to perfection by participating in the celebration of all celebrations:  Mardi Gras.

Many people are not aware that the Mardi Gras celebration in the United States began not in New Orleans, but in Mobile, AL — just across the bay from Baldwin County.  From the official Mobile website:

"Mobile is not only recognized as celebrating the first-known American Mardi Gras celebration in 1703 (yes, even before New Orleans), but also as home to the "America’s Family Mardi Gras" delighting both young and old from around town and across the nation. This magnificent celebration lasts for over two and a half weeks and culminates on Fat Tuesday, the day before Lent.

For weeks, the streets of downtown Mobile are filled with the sights and sounds of live marching bands, brilliant-colored floats and of course teeming crowds of parade goers. The floats are glowing spectacles manned by masked riders festooned in satin and sequins, and armed with crowd-pleasing "throws" such as beads, moon pies, doubloons and candy. Mardi Gras must be experienced to be fully understood and Mobile is the perfect place."

So here in the south, folks don’t have a holiday for President’s Day.  Everybody takes the day off for Mardi Gras.  Some folks take two.  Heck, some people take the whole week.  And so I find myself enjoying the company of my wonderful granddaughter.  She is eight years old, smart, funny, and active.  Today we made flubber.  Blue flubber.  Which was shaped into a brain and subjected to invasive surgery.  Then it became an island close by a whirlpool that sucked in hundreds of boats.  The ships sank to the bottom of the ocean, but all homo-sapiens survived shipwreck and created a tight community on said island.  Did I mention that the island is sentient?  We’re having some serious fun.

Serious fun just as in Baldwin County AL celebrations.  Come on down!