Happy Fat Tuesday!

The day before lent, New Orleans is enjoying every last drop of whatever partiers plan on giving up the next day. This year was no different.

Tuesday morning, according to The Associated Press, the Mardi Gras celebration continued when 100 members of Half-Fast Walking Club and Pete Fountain, a clarinetist dressed as a knight from King Arthur's courts, paraded into Uptown streets.

The crowds had been up, despite a night of wild partying Monday, since dawn waiting for the Fat Tuesday celebrations to begin, reported the AP.

And that's a good thing for the revival of the city struck by a horrible hurricane three years ago, KALB News Channel 5 reported.

"More people come, more people visit, the more New Orleans comes back," Bill Koutnick, a tourist celebrating Mardi Gras, said to KALB.

On Ash Wednesday, the 12-day Mardi Gras event ends and the 6-week-long lent begins.