Big party time in New Orleans

It's the Carnaval season here but before anything else, this week end is extra special since The Saints, the local football team, are playing in the Super Bowl. It will be the very first time in the history of the club, and the game is tomorrow in Miami, against The Colts from Indianapolis. The city has been preparing for this event for days, you really can't miss it, and the atmosphere in the streets is just crazy, so cheerful and colorful. Music on every corner and in every single pub, parades, people dancing in the streets and calling out "Who Dat" all the time. It seems like this event, followed by the whole country, is marking the fact that New Orleans has finally recovered from Katrina, the hurricane which devastated the city four and half years ago.
Here are a few pics taken this afternoon.

















The "Who Dat" song:


And HERE, a link for more pics which I took today just as I was walking along, from the Faubourg Marigny to the French Quarter.