Hi Y'all,
I'm back to campus safe after a wonderful trip to New Orleans...
After a long, emotional training (draining) day Friday, I stayed home for the night while my buddies went out to see the new Harry Potter. I definitely needed the sleep and felt much better on Sat morning when we loaded up our cars at 9am. We took the (very) long way, but the length of the trip wasn't an issue because it might have been my favorite part with "hot seat" and tons of bonding. We arrived at Abita Brewery at 2pm, just in time for the last FREE tour & tasting. Abita is a very cool green brewery (that reminded me of Great Lakes) north of New Orleans. After a couple free delicious beers, we headed to a BBQ place and I got my favorite- pulled pork sandwich. the girls there also gave us two heaping plates of free ribs because we were so foreign.
We drove back over the causeway to our gorgeous hotel the Olivier. We had two suites for cheapo AmeriCorps prices and 15 of us piled in on beds couches and sleeping bags.
We quickly got ready and headed out for a fun night on the town with some good food, hookah, drinks, blues, singing, dancing, strolling (with open containers-fun!), and of course Beignets!
Then we had a night swimming party in the courtyard of our little hotel tucked away right around the corner from Bourbon street. I was so happy to sleep on a non-plastic bed.
In the morning we got some awesome egg, panchetta, and imported provalone sandwiches and yummy coffee at a cute little cafe by pirate alley.
After checking out of our hotel, we headed to fellow TL Mary Molly's house in uptown New Orleans. Her family gave us a warm welcome into their house. It was so nice to be in a home with real homey things, carpeting and non-white walls. They made gumbo and strawberry shortcake. MMMMMmmmmmmm!
That's NOLA in a nutshell, off to a meeting, so I gotta sign off. Pictures to come.
I'm back to campus safe after a wonderful trip to New Orleans...
After a long, emotional training (draining) day Friday, I stayed home for the night while my buddies went out to see the new Harry Potter. I definitely needed the sleep and felt much better on Sat morning when we loaded up our cars at 9am. We took the (very) long way, but the length of the trip wasn't an issue because it might have been my favorite part with "hot seat" and tons of bonding. We arrived at Abita Brewery at 2pm, just in time for the last FREE tour & tasting. Abita is a very cool green brewery (that reminded me of Great Lakes) north of New Orleans. After a couple free delicious beers, we headed to a BBQ place and I got my favorite- pulled pork sandwich. the girls there also gave us two heaping plates of free ribs because we were so foreign.
We drove back over the causeway to our gorgeous hotel the Olivier. We had two suites for cheapo AmeriCorps prices and 15 of us piled in on beds couches and sleeping bags.
We quickly got ready and headed out for a fun night on the town with some good food, hookah, drinks, blues, singing, dancing, strolling (with open containers-fun!), and of course Beignets!
Then we had a night swimming party in the courtyard of our little hotel tucked away right around the corner from Bourbon street. I was so happy to sleep on a non-plastic bed.
In the morning we got some awesome egg, panchetta, and imported provalone sandwiches and yummy coffee at a cute little cafe by pirate alley.
After checking out of our hotel, we headed to fellow TL Mary Molly's house in uptown New Orleans. Her family gave us a warm welcome into their house. It was so nice to be in a home with real homey things, carpeting and non-white walls. They made gumbo and strawberry shortcake. MMMMMmmmmmmm!
That's NOLA in a nutshell, off to a meeting, so I gotta sign off. Pictures to come.
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