Randy and I headed to New Orleans this past weekend. Let’s just get the bad out of the way right off the bat. Then we can go on to the great.
It rained ALL weekend. This made it hard to see anything, but it did make it easier to while away hours eating and drinking. So I guess this wasn’t really bad!
The few sightseeing pictures we have are of umbrellas with not much else visible.
Here is my first view of the Mississippi River! As Henry correctly pointed out the best thing about the Mississippi was that Mark Twain wrote about it. We really do like each other, the umbrellas just made it hard to get together!
Here are Daphne and MJ in front of a very famous historical New Orleans sight. It’s right behind MJ’s umbrella.
The one sight we did manage to take in was the statue of Ignacius Reilly in front of the former site of the D.H. Holmes Department Store. Some of us were very excited to see this. Extra points awarded for those book nerds out there who know what book this is from.
Randy also had a fever, chills and aches and pains all weekend. He rallied and made it to his birthday dinner on Friday night and joined us Saturday day, but after that he was down for the count and in bed until we flew out on Monday afternoon. After a long wait on Monday night at the doctors strep throat was diagnosed.
Thankfully, Erika, Henry, Daphne and MJ were there for me to spend time with. Everything is of course more fun with Randy, but I luckily still had a great time and loads of fun with everyone. Randy was not feeling very photogenic in the hotel bed, so here is another picture of the Louisiana rain.
Now onto the great. The food in New Orleans ia amazing! Friday night, we went to Herbsaint. Luckily, Randy was able to make it to dinner and it was a good thing since it was delicious. Randy had gumbo and shrimp, salad and steak for me. We had big plans to grab some drinks and stay up to say hi to everyone else who flew in from New York later that night, but we both fell asleep early.
The next morning we all headed to Cafe Du Monde, where they serve beignets or beignets. Fine by me. These little sugary fried dough balls are heaven and they were quickly gobbled up.
What no one wanted to eat the sugar?
Our next planned activity was lunch…but in order to work up an appetite we walked around the French Quarter a bit. The heavy rain luckily held off and we got a little shopping in to the boys delight.
Next stop- Acme for lunch. I’ll say this was worth the thirty minute wait, and luckily the company made the time fly by.
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On the menu: oysters, po boys and maybe a drink or two. Our next planned activity* was dinner and was in a couple hours so we ate light.
*Our only planned activities this weekend were food.
After lunch we headed back to the hotel for some Prosecco and Albitas. Randy went up to rest and sadly was in bed for the rest of the weekend.
Excuse some of the blurry Iphone pics, Randy is usually in charge of carrying our heavy camera and with him relaxing at the Ritz I was unable to lug both my purse and the camera around.
The rest of us headed out to Couchon for dinner after some drinks, gossip mag reading and chatting. My favorite way to spend an afternoon.
After a yummy meal we went out for drinks at Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop. There was a great piano player and great conversation.
The next morning we slowly got up and headed to a yummy breakfast at Elizabeths. A little hair of the dog and praline bacon helped things tremendously! This picture does not do justice to this delicious bloody mary.
It was still raining so the girls shopped a little while the boys napped. We found this amazing gallery of this artist James Beard. If I had 11,000 dollars this would be hanging in Adam’s nursery.
Instead, I was able to buy a childrens book that the artist signed to Adam! I think it’s a great reminder of our trip to give to Adam, and by give I mean leave on his shelf 🙂
After shopping Erika and I got a reflexology foot massage, which was so relaxing! Then we went home to get ready for dinner. Giants fans headed to a steak bar where they could watch the game. Erika, Henry and I headed to Galatoire’s. This restaurant is an institution located on Bourbon street. It was filled with moneyed New Orleanians and yummy food. We had delicious shrimp cocktail, escargot, steak and sides. It’s a good thing I don’t live in New Orleans…I would be as big as a house!
After dinner we met up with the Giants fan (Adam must not have been wearing his pajamas because they lost) and we all headed up to Frenchman street. Frenchman street was by far the coolest part of New Orleans that I saw. It was full of cool little bars and bands playing in the street. Not the greatest video below but a little flavor of some great music we heard just walking around.
Monday we walked around a bit, we may have popped back to Cafe Du Monde for some beignets and then flew home.
More great news, Adam did great at home with Grandma Yuyu. He ate a ton, went for walks and played in the park. We are very lucky that we have family that loves Adam so much and takes time off of work to watch our baby. Thanks Grandma Yuyu!
We will definitely need to return to New Orleans when Randy can enjoy all the great food and sights!
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Adam looks pretty annoyed you didn't bring him back any beignets in that photo…
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Ha! That's an old photo 🙂 but a good one of grandma yuyu and Adam!
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This recap is even more fun than that foot massage! Love the photos (will need them all, especially that one of me and Henry, we look so thrilled to be in the presence of beignets). I'm just glad Randy was able to get a photo with Ignatius before he hit the bed and we missed him terribly. It was such a treat to see and eat with you!
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