A Louisiana couple literally put the party in their gender reveal party by discovering their baby’s gender during a Mardi Gras parade. Elizabeth and James Rourk’s family live along a parade route and as the couple are expecting their first child in July, Mardi Gras season was the perfect time to host a gender reveal party. When Elizabeth told a friend at work about the party, it turned out she had friends in the Krewe of Carnivale en Rio parade who were thrilled to help with the reveal. On February 23, the party lined up along the parade route with balloons tied to Elizabeth and a sign reading ‘King or Queen: Which will it be? Throw here’ as the floats rolled by. As Rio approached, the party start cheering and pointing at Elizabeth and James, before the Krewe start raining pink beads down on the group prompting screams and tears of joy.