The Party's Over

New Orleans Police Sgt. Mike Field leads mounted officers in their salute to the balconies at the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann streets in the French Quarter to officially end Mardi Gras at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley, center, and Deputy Chief Steven Nicholas are all smiles as they end their walk down Bourbon Street in the French Quarter to officially end Mardi Gras at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

Police officers walk down Bourbon Street in the French Quarter to officially end Mardi Gras just after midnight March 1, 2006. New Orleans celebrated its first Mardi Gras since Hurricane Katrina.

A Louisiana State Trooper moves the crowd to the sidewalk and out of the street as the New Orleans Police Department and the Louisiana State Police walk down Bourbon Street in the French Quarter to officially end Mardi Gras at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

One reveler on stilts can't get enough as he walks just ahead of the New Orleans Police Department and the Louisiana State Police as they march down Bourbon Street in the French Quarter to officially end Mardi Gras.

A woman jumps the trash and water-filled gutter on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Wednesday, March 1, 2006. Street sweepers would normally be out in full force to begin the cleanup, but not this year.

Discarded beads and other trash litter the gutter along Bourbon Street as Mardi Gras draws to a close in New Orleans on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006.

Mardi Gras trash overflows on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 1, 2006, the morning after Mardi Gras. The streets of New Orleans were mostly clear of revelers, leaving only mounds of trash behind.

Billy Laurence, left, and Joshua Brumfield sweep in front of a Bourbon Street bar in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

Terry Westbrook pauses as he cleans trash from the front of his Bourbon Street home in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

Mulji R. Jasani looks over the trash on Bourbon Street from the door of his souvenir shop in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

A worker loads Mardi Gras beads into a trash can in front of a Bourbon Street bar in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

Billy Laurence sweeps in front of a Bourbon Street business in the French Quarter in New Orleans the morning after Mardi Gras, Wednesday, March 1, 2006.

Dominic Anthony Sotello hoses down the sidewalk in front of a Bourbon Street bar in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 1, 2006, the morning after Mardi Gras. The streets of New Orleans were mostly clear of revelers, leaving only mounds of trash behind.

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