Last Friday our Reading Challenge celebrants had a great time with good food, good (once you get used to it) music, and good fun!  If you were not there, you missed out!  Readers received Mardi Gras beads and rings, ate Cubbies’ burgers and fries, and drank gallons of green voodoo juice (punch).  We finished up with King cupcakes for dessert.   I explained a little about the Louisiana celebration of Mardi Gras, which means Fat (Gras) Tuesday (Mardi) in French. This year the date was February 5th.   It is the last day before Lent begins, so there is the tradition of parades, lots of good food, and lots of fun that ends before the weeks leading up to Easter.  The King Cake is a pastry filled with many choices of sweets, iced with the royal colors of purple, green, and gold to represent the three Wise Men that visited the baby Jesus at his birth.

After we ate and drank, we played a little bingo for prizes.  We thank the moms that helped out with pickup and serving of the food and drinks!

At the end of the next quarter, we will have another great celebration and we would love to have everyone there!  The genres for this quarter are Non-Fiction: Mythology, Folklore, and Fairy Tales.  Read at least 4 books (it takes two to equal one link for the really skinny books).  There are so many subjects to choose from!   Keep reading!