Destin Mardi Gras Celebration Rolls ON! 5th Annual Mardi Gras on the Destin Harbor Friday, February 8, 2013 Mardi Gras Pub Crawl 8:00 P.M Led by Destin Nights Saturday, February 9, 2013 GRANDE Mardi Gras Parade 2:00 P.M Texas Hold Em on The Harbor The HarborView Room Mardi Gras Dinner & Tournament 5:30 P.M Hosted by by Rotary Club of Destin www.holdemontheharbor.com for info and tickets Sunday, February 10, 2013 Mardi Gras Pardi Paddle 12:00 P.M sponsored by Kitty Hawk Kites Mardi Gras Concert Blues, Rock and Zydeco Music By The DizzyJukes Band 2:00 P.M Fat Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Free Red Beans and Rice & Hurricanes Specials 5:00 P.M sponsored by Village Merchants & Poppy's Crazy Lobster All Mardi Gras events on the Destin Harbor are free and open to the public. The fun starts on Friday night with a Destin Nights' Mardi Gras pub crawl through HarborWalk Village. For a $10 donation participants receive a wristband good for FREE Mardi Gras swag, drink specials and live music throughout the evening.
Proceeds benefit American Cancer Society Relay for Life.
The 5th Annual Mardi Gras parade will be held Saturday at 2 P.M, followed by a family fun day on Sunday with concert by The DizzyJukes Band and the soon to be famous Jester Pardi Paddle sponsored by Kitty Hawk Kites. GRANDE PARADE Over 100 parade entries will roll, float, pedal and push their way down the Destin Harbor from AJ's Seafood and Oyster Bar to the west end of HarborWalk Village. The top three parade entries will win awards, including weekend stays at Emerald Grande, spa treatments and Mardi Gras lagniappe. This year's parade will culminate in an epic weekend-long street festival featuring stilt walkers, jugglers, balloon artists, concerts, dining, dancing and family fun. Revelers can make carnival masks, march to brass bands and catch handfuls of colorful beads at the 2013 celebration. Click link for Mardi Gras Parade Application All parade participants and the viewing public are asked to bring boxes of food or cash donations for Destin's Harvest House. "We have the opportunity to impact the lives of others by partnering with our local food banks through Destin Harvest" said Jamie Hall, Marketing Director for HarborWalk Village. "Our hope is to raise much needed funds, collect non-perishable food items and bring awareness to our local families who struggle daily to feed their families. We all want to help and participating in this event (Mardi Gras Parade) gives back to our community." Destin Harvest is a non-profit telephone and transportation network operating in the Florida Panhandle that picks up the donated food and takes it to the social service agencies serving the people who need it. Destin Harvest provides good food to the hungry of the Florida Panhandle. Every day thousands of Floridians go hungry. Some are sick, or unemployed, or homeless. Many are elderly. Many are in working families. Destin Harvest delivers the wholesome food immediately to agencies feeding those in need. The goal of Destin Harvest is to complement all of the existing hunger programs. Our objective is to deliver food to all of the approved emergency feeding programs through out the Northwest Florida area. HarborWalk Village is located at the foot of the Destin Bridge on Highway 98 in Destin, FL # # # | 
