Thursday, March 31, 2011

NOLA, here I come!

Excuse the following….I am super excited and I’m blabbing.  A lot……

One of my very good friends (Reecey-Pants) is going to New Orleans for a week for work, and invited me along.  OMG, YES!!!!!!!  I love, love LOVE New Orleans!  We won’t have a car so we won’t be able to get out to Baton Rouge & Plaquemine, but then again, one whole week in the French Quarter hardly seems like enough.

I solemnly swear I’m going to Café du Monde Every. Single. Day.  (NOM!)

I’m bringing my camera, my sketchbook, and I’m going to have a fabulous time.  Too bad the friend I’m going with doesn’t like sea food.  (WTF, how can you go to New Orleans and NOT LIKE SEAFOOD?!)

Anyway, the following is a list of things I’d like to do, any other suggestions??  I have all day during the day to fill up my time, and then after my friend gets off work, we can go do whatever she wants to do.

Cafe-du-Monde_900x600(“Café du Monde” Christa Kieffer Studios)

Café Du Monde  (Completely and utterly a must.  It’s not so much ‘something I want to do’, but a place I’m going to be if nothing else is going on at the moment.)

New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum

Beauregard-Keyes House

Musée Conti  (OMG a wax museum.  YES!!!)

The Cabildo

New Orleans Historical Tours

Jackson Square

LSM 1850 House

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

LSM Madame John’s Legacy (if it’s open – was closed last time I was there, and as far as I know, may be closed to the public forever.)

Haunted History Tours  (There are a bunch of them, and I’ve taken a couple already….I’m seriously thinking about the two Garden District tours…..a regular one and a spoooooooky one.  Heh.  Maybe, just maybe I’ll be totally nerded out and take the vampire one too.  HAHAHA)

WWII/DDay Museum

Suggested Places:

Green Goddess (Suggested by Other Noelle – This place opened after I was there last, so a new place for me to explore!  She says “The "Mezze of Destruction" secret message should still give you a secret foodie easter egg of some kind, if you eat there and say it to your server. It's the secret "Neil sent me" code.” )

Delachaise Restaurant (Suggested by Neil Gaiman via Other Noelle.  If Neil says it’s good, I believe it!)

The Café Adelaide (Again, suggested by Neil via Other Noelle.)

Fleur de Paris, Custom Millinery & Couture Boutique (Suggested by Other Noelle.  Looking at the website just makes me DROOL.  And wish I were a size 2……..)