NOLA

Well I finally made my first trip to New Orleans. It was a really, really quick trip. Our friend was meeting his mom there to pick up his dog. So he invited us to ride along with him. We left early Saturday morning and we had terrible rainy weather the way there. It took about 6 hours to finally reach the city. We got all checked into our hotel and made our way down to ACME Oysters. Everyone raved about the chargrilled oysters and poboys. I ate 3 oysters and that was plenty for me. They weren't as bad as I had envisioned, but they definitely won't become a staple in my diet. While we were at ACME our friends from Houston happened to be in town so they met us for lunch. After lunch we had plans to visit the aquarium (I can never pass up an aquarium, something about them I love), but it closed at 5:00pm and the last ticket was sold at 4:30pm so we would have never been able to make it. So instead we took a much needed nap at the hotel.
We decided we needed a nice dinner out so we made plans at Emeril's New Orleans. It was delicious. The cheesy grits were to die for and I don't even like grits. After dinner we hit up Harrah's so I could get my gambling fix. I was doing pretty well for awhile and instead of cashing out while I was ahead I ended up loosing all my money. I tracked Al down and he was up about $15 so he let me take over for him. I ended up loosing all his money too. Good thing we set limits or I would have gone crazy and lost a lot more than $40. We ventured down the street to Hard Rock to get Al a shirt and a hat. We saw some drunk guy get arrested, so that was interesting.
The next morning we headed to the world famous Cafe du Monde for beingets (french donuts). They were delicious. We wandered around the Mississippi River and back into town and met up with Ron and his cousins and took the street cars up and down St. Charles street. The old homes were absolutely gorgeous. I could have looked at them all day. After that we had to leave good 'ole NOLA. I definitely want to go back there seems like a lot more to do to see. Also, we managed to escape with out being mugged. We probably had 30 people tell us to take taxis everywhere and watch everyone around us. Overall it was a really fun trip. I'll post pics when I get home.