There's a baby in my cake...

"It [Mardi Gras] is a thing that could hardly exist in the practical North....For the soul of it is the romantic, not the funny and the grotesque. Take away the romantic mysteries, the kings and knights and big-sounding titles, and Mardi Gras would die, down there in the South. "

-Mark Twain

Thank you, mama! We're Mardi-Gras-ing it up over here in Georgia!!