New Orleans Trip

New Orleans, I think I love you, but only for an occasional weekend.

Jared & I decided at the beginning of August to go see our friends in New Orleans. We wanted to get away from Fort Worth and just have some fun! We needed to leave the house by 2:15pm to make it to our 5:00pm flight. We exit off of 30 to get onto 121 and there's traffic which is just grrrrrreat. So we sat in traffic for 45 minutes. Not a good way to start off a much anticipated trip. We finally made it to the airport and got our boarding pass and it said "FIRST CLASS" that's a major score when you're flying standby!!!

My favorite words to hear on the plane were, "Ladies and gentlemen we are 10 minutes away from New Orleans. Flight Attendants please prepare for landing." I really do NOT like to fly!!

Richard was kind enough to pick us up from the airport and he wanted to show us around the city. I had been to New Orleans once before when I was a little girl, but I don't remember anything about the city.

That evening we ate at this place called the Butcher. It was a REAL butcher shop! I didn't even think those were around anymore. I wasn't feeling very exotic so I ordered just a turkey sandwich and let me tell you it was the BEST turkey sandwich I've ever had. The meat tasted so fresh and full of goodness. I'm a pretty picky eater especially when it comes to meat.

The next morning we ate at this hole in the wall called Slim Goodies, and it was nothing but goodness all around. I ordered just plain Jane eggs and toast. Crazy, I know. The rest of the day we walked around the French Quarter, along the Mississippi River, then I took a 3 hour nap! As we were walking through the French Quarter there were some homeless people on the sitting of the street. As we got closer to them one of them said, "Hey you're on a TV Reality Show it's called Give Me A Dollar." We all busted out laughing. That was one of the most clever ways of asking for a dollar that I've ever heard. I wanted to give them a dollar just for making me laugh!

After I woke up from my nap I realized that my phone alarm went off for me to take my birth control pill and sinus meds and I went to get my purse and realized I left my purse in the car which is parked in Dallas. Somehow I managed to grab my wallet but left my purse!

That evening we rode the trolly car and went to an awesome restaurant called HerbSaint's for dinner. I cannot even begin to explain how amazing this food was! It was like tasting Heaven. I was pretty nervous about trying something new because of my sensitive gag reflex to certain foods. (If a food has a funny taste or texture to me I gag. I can't help it!!!!) But to mine & Jared's surprise I didn't gag a single time! I actually had to pull myself away from the food. I ordered Sausage & DUCK Gumbo, Chicken & Mushroom Ravioli, and Dirty Rice. I wasn't sure about eating the Duck so I thought I had scooped it aside. Later Jessica told that it was actually the Sausage I was scooping away and the Duck was what I was eating. Jared ordered Grits & Shrimp, sounds gross, but quite the contrary! The shrimp was the best shrimp I've ever had! Richard ordered some sort of veal wrap and I had a bite of that too! So I tried Duck and Veal! Go me!!

(Dirty Rice)

Chicken & Mushroom Ravioli

Duck & Sausage Gumbo

(See Susan, you're not the only one who takes photos of their food!)

After dinner Jessica & Richard took us to Bourbon Street (which smelled like puke). I thought I was a cultured person, well after seeing Bourbon Street I'd like to think not. Bourbon Street is one l-o-n-g street and the setup goes like this: bar, bar, bar, strip club, strip club, gay bar, gay bar, tobacco shop, bar, bar, bar, strip club, strip club, etc.. I saw plenty of drunk people and girls with barely anything on to last a lifetime. We were walking by what we thought was just a regular bar, however it was a gay bar! The bartender was wearing, get this, a bow tie around his neck and a g-string and I'm not talking the kind of thong(s) you can wear on your feet! I wanted to throw up my expensive dinner!!

Over all the trip was awesome. We loved New Orleans! When we got home we took another 5hr nap to catch up on some sleep that we definitely lost while we were there! But the lost sleep was well worth all the fun!!