The Big Easy Part 1

So Matt and I headed out Sunday morning to explore and discover New Orleans, LA.

Both of us are big planners so it was really funny that by about Grenada, MS we realized neither of us had researched at all, and we had no clue what we were going to do for 3 days besides eat.

That is how crazy the past 3 or so weeks has been. We had a beautiful, historical city before us and no idea where to start. So if that's how these next few posts are...sorry.

We rolled into NOLA at about 4:30 Sunday evening, checked into our hotel, changed, and set out for dinner. We had skipped lunch in preparation. We really like to eat, it's the highlight of most of our travels. We literally walked out of hotel and followed the crowd, in about 2 blocks we found Bourbon St.

Um, it's um, Bourbon St. We lasted about 6 blocks and cut over to find real food and landed at Cafe Maspero.

We were sent there (and most of the places we ate) by one of Matt's coworkers who is from New Orleans. Since it was only first supper we just got poboys, me a roast beef, Matt a fried oyster. The roast beef was amazing, so different than anything we do in Memphis. But the oyster won hands down. Crazy good.

Street jug band

From their we explored more of the French Quarter. Mainly getting our bearings and making an actual plan for the following day, we can only be spontaneous for so long. Here are a few shots of things we found.

Cafe Du Monde

Creepy portrait of little girls

Mississippi River walk

Loved this

And finally we ended up at a palm reader. There were a ton of street performers, tarot card readers, magicians and musicians throughout the French Quarter. And having my fortune read has always been a temptation of mine. So after walking past them all night I finally decided we had to try something ridiculous in New Orleans, and it wasn't going to be anything else the people were offering so....here we go.

As soon as the lady looked at my palm she shook her head and said huffed " I have no idea where to start" That was perfect for so many reasons, mainly because that is what Matt has said for years, because my hands are so crazy wrinkled. So the fact that it was the first thing out of her mouth was priceless.

In the end she talked a lot about change, she said I had so many stars on my hand because I kept changing paths and I was too stubborn to stay still for long. She also predicted twins....so there's that.

It was fun, but in the end it proved it was such a sham. Everything she said was super vague and you could make it apply to anything you wanted (except the twin thing...)


We ended headed back to the hotel and got ready for bed when we realized we never had second supper! We promptly ordered a shrimp BLT and white chocolate bread pudding from room service.

We split it, so that made it allright for us.

Day one done.