Mardi Gras Party

As promised I would post the photos from the Mardi Gras party. After watching the parade, we came home and got into our costumes then went to join friends and other 18,000 local, interstate and international party-goers at the sold-out Mardi Gras party.
At the party, veteran transsexual Carlotta joined crooner David Campbell and 40 drag queens for a rendition of I Am What I Am, while Olivia Newton John put on a glorious show of 'Xanadu' at 4am, which we missed out.
Pop goddess Cyndi Lauper was set to close the party at 8am. She came out of nowhere looking like Marie Antoinette in a stunning period costume to bring down the house.
She launched into her brand new song 'The Same old fucking story!' and finished with her signature song 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'. At the end of the song, she took a big pie from one of the back-up dancers, and smashed it right into her own face. "Happy Mardi Gras!" she screamed! Many more images after the jump..

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