Hi all y’all!
74 degrees and everything is starting to bloom. Don’t hate. It will be unbearably hot before you know it.
With Spring comes house guests. It is fun to see our city through the eyes of someone here for the first time.
When someone has been here before, I like to act as a bed and breakfast. But for the first time visitor there is so much to see, I think a tour is in order.
We have friends here from California this week. After 6 days of being a tour guide, I felt they had seen enough of New Orleans for a first visit. I was not willing to release them before this. (It is such a great city, I think you really have to live here full-time to experience it.) Today, Mary and Ulco are taking a self-guided walking tour of the Garden District.
We started the week with a car tour… breakfast at Camilla Grill, Audubon Park, the French Quarter, Frenchman St., the Marigny, the Bywater, and City Park. The next day, we rode the Streetcar to the French Quarter and had beignets at Cafe du Monde followed by lunch at the Gumbo Shop. Mary and Ulco were kind enough to go to the finale of Entrepreneur Week to support Where Y’Art. (Where Y’Art won the popular vote, but not the judges vote for $50,000.)
We went to Hogs for a Cause at City Park on Saturday. It had rained all night and it was a muddy mess. *House guests don’t really like wading around in the mud. To be honest, we didn’t like it either.
We stopped by Chickie Wah Wah to see Paul Sanchez. He invited several guest artists on stage during the show. It was super fun. I have to go see Antoine Diel again.
We were super lucky to see the Mardi Gras Indians on Sunday. After that, my sweet darlin’ drove them through the 9th Ward and Chalmette.
The top 3 things we did this week were: 1) the French Quarter. 2) the New Orleans School of Cooking. This is a great over-view of history as it relates to food.
3) Honey Island Swamp Tour. I like this tour for a first visit because it is close to the city and well run.
The restaurants are too many to mention.
Art? No art. I better get busy.
With scaly, reptilian love,
Gator Girl Art 