I can't go to the mardi gras party--because I work my current job and I have kids :-) -- otherwise the kids would just be an excuse if I didn't really want to go.......
plus, considering what I have heard about these wild free-for-alls--it would not be pretty for all of us to be in the same room together--it would be quite dangerous.
Although with these lovely kilted lads--how can that be a bad thing, eh??