New Orleans Trip

Mississippi River

The adult beverage (looks gross, but very yummy!)

CAFE DU MONDE!!

Siblings and In-laws :-)

I am so behind on blogging, spring is flying by!

Over my Spring Break Clayton and I went to New Orleans for a few days to visit my sister and brother-in-law. We drove which was fun and tiring! We left on a Wednesday night after Clayton got off of work and drove to Shreveport. The next morning we woke up really early and drove the rest of the way to New Orleans. While we were there we ate a lot of great food and enjoyed romaing around New Orleans. It was a fairly crowded because the basketball tournmant was going on.

Things we did:

* Ate at Cafe DuMonde EVERY DAY which was AWESOME!

* Went to the aquarium

* Visited the WWII museum (probably would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't just had a rather large adult beverage....)

* Watched the filming of the Green Lantern (they were filming across the street from Allison and Patrick's place!)

* Walked A LOT, probably 8 miles

* Bought a painting from a local artist in Jackson Square

Favorite memory from the trip: Clayton was "attacked" by a drunk, "homeless" guy in Jackson Square and asked for a dollar for a beer. Clayton told him he had no money. The "homeless" guy porceeded to ask him how old he was, Clayton said twenty, the guy acted shocked and argued that he was at least thirty. THEN the guy pulls a twenty dollar bill out of his pocket and said I bet you twenty dollars you are not...I thought this was hillarious...

My brother-in-law (Patrick, Allison's husband) said that he tells the homeless people if they lead him to the place where you can get a beer for a dollar that he will buy them more than one beer...I thought that was a good line!

We drove back Sunday, and encountered a heavy snow storm in East Texas which was weird! We had a great time in NOLA and are sad that the next time we go to New Orleans we won't have our excellent tour guides (Allison and Patrick) since they are moving to Waco at the end of May...BUT we are much more excited to have them back in Texas!!

I will try to update more later this week....