My apologies - I meant the week of Dec. 1. I'm also looking forward to Mardi Gras as I have not yet been. Our office in NOLA has a balcony on a few of the levels and it's going to be sick watching the parade from the office balcony while drinking our asses off.
I'm probably more sorry than you are since you're going to miss out. I'm sure they'll all be blown by that Monday. If you're still in town for Saturday the 6th, there's a pretty cool event going on at 1pm (a couple of glass blowers selling handmade whisk(e)y and beer glasses). They'll usually have something special on tap for those sorts of events.
Still on the water.