VeraBlue
Executive Chef
5 years ago, Lou gave me a trip to New Orleans for my 40th birthday. We loved it, it felt like we'd lived there, centuries ago, on so many different levels. We were there in March, the weather was beautiful. I spent a fortune shopping
. We ate like Bacchus. We've been to New Orleans 4 times already (which, when you consider how the rest of the earth's travel destinations are vying for our travel dollars, that's no small feat), always in the spring, with the exception of our last trip, Christmas/New Year's eve, 2006, post Katrina. We've never visited for Mardi Gras for a variety of reasons, not the least being we simply don't care for drunken frat boys vomitting in technicolour. We've toured all the cemeteries, all the plantations, all the swamps, we've jazzed up and down the river, 'marked our territory' in discreet corners of St. Paul's street, bopped our way from bar to bar (yes, they do give out 'rain hats' to everyone that goes into the gay bars) and cried when we saw the red Xs on all the magnificent doors of the quarter and cried harder when you fly over the devestated 9th ward.
We want Mardi Gras! We shall have Mardi Gras or it will have us. We're leaving on 18 February and returning 23 February. We've got itineraries, plans, reservations...and the seat of our pants. We both got brand new pairs of New Balance (eeeegads, how oh how does a lovely victorian such as myself don a pair of 'sneakers' and present herself to society??? I may need smelling salts
)
Is anyone else going?? Anyone live there?? (careful how you respond to that..I may decide you need an impish redheaded tattooed victorian houseguest several times a year...I will display impecable manners, I do so solemly swear.)
Throw me something, Mister!!!
. We ate like Bacchus. We've been to New Orleans 4 times already (which, when you consider how the rest of the earth's travel destinations are vying for our travel dollars, that's no small feat), always in the spring, with the exception of our last trip, Christmas/New Year's eve, 2006, post Katrina. We've never visited for Mardi Gras for a variety of reasons, not the least being we simply don't care for drunken frat boys vomitting in technicolour. We've toured all the cemeteries, all the plantations, all the swamps, we've jazzed up and down the river, 'marked our territory' in discreet corners of St. Paul's street, bopped our way from bar to bar (yes, they do give out 'rain hats' to everyone that goes into the gay bars) and cried when we saw the red Xs on all the magnificent doors of the quarter and cried harder when you fly over the devestated 9th ward.We want Mardi Gras! We shall have Mardi Gras or it will have us. We're leaving on 18 February and returning 23 February. We've got itineraries, plans, reservations...and the seat of our pants. We both got brand new pairs of New Balance (eeeegads, how oh how does a lovely victorian such as myself don a pair of 'sneakers' and present herself to society??? I may need smelling salts
)Is anyone else going?? Anyone live there?? (careful how you respond to that..I may decide you need an impish redheaded tattooed victorian houseguest several times a year...I will display impecable manners, I do so solemly swear.)
Throw me something, Mister!!!
---we should have had you with us instead----my husband's neck was killing him after 3 hours of having her sit on his shoulders!!!!!!!!!!! Have a great time and give them your cutest smile!!!!!!
! Who doesn't love a vampyre in the French Quarter??
