Here are some of our favorite Mardi Gras stories.

First up in 2017 a group of Mardi Gras revelers in Texas had a very specific mission.

They were part of a flash mob marriage proposal.

Theo Stunt began with Groom to be John Galloway, strutting his stuff before a Mardi Gras parade began.

He was joined by his choreographed coconspirators doing their thing to Bruno Mars.

His girlfriend, Wendy Hernandez, was a professional dancer, so the pressure was on.

But John had nothing to fear, she said.

Yes, of course, on Mardi Gras was the occasion of another big life event, a gender reveal.

Everyone around me was so excited that they forgot the fuck the farmers thes expectant parents decided to celebrate the imminent arrival of their baby by having partiers throw beads at them.

Jesus!

It was just like whenever I realized I saw this thing beats flying at us like instantly went into tears and just like the excitement and all the buildup that happened from then, it was wild.

Elizabeth had some friends riding on the Mardi Gras float.

When the flu got close enough, a sign was held up that red king or queen, Which will it be?

Throw here.

The emotions that were going through it.

Just like I can't leave this happening.

This is crazy.

Oh, my God.

I'm gonna have a little girl.

She's gonna be a little me.

I mean, I was just ecstatic.

Animal lovers may be ecstatic over this celebration.

It's doggie Graham, and it happens every year in San Diego.

Happy dog Beloved pets as well as rescue dogs in need of homes parade down for bone street decked out in their fat Tuesday.

Finest.

It's pretty awesome.

Sorry.

A decidedly less adorable animal helped kick off the carnival season invented this year.

That is a big rat.

The rat in its bird Friends are carnival floats literally perched atop the gondola's navigating the city's canals.

Carnival season culminates in Marty Crop or Fat Tuesday.

What's it all mean?

Oh, yeah, that's that's a fun day.

Well, we'll let this guy explain.

The brakes are off Mardi Gras, right?

People in the street dancing, celebrating and on the moon.

That stuff.

And then it all comes to a crashing halt at midnight on Ash Wednesday.

When the lights turned out, the costumes taken off people home shot of the windows and hunker down for limp.

In the Christian tradition, Lent is a time of fasting and solemn observance.

People do talk about giving up things for letting a lot of things I need to give up.

I need to give up my love of sweets and cookies and candy, and I can do that for live.

But it's not about suffering.

Just make yourself suffer the Season of Lent again.