BEADS BEADS BEADS... We love going to Busch Gardens for their tones down celebration of Mardi Gras. They have a great street parade with beads being thrown from set piece windows, plus they have really impressive food booths where you can get benights, kings cake and tons of specialty alcoholic drinks.

This year the parage has big puppets that danced along as well and the jazz band was amazing!!! Really fun event that's included in the daily event schedule... there are no characters in this one and there are no celebrations within the sesame street are for this event (all is as normal there compared to sesame place in PA).