French Quarter Fest

Friday, 9:03 am

By Cyn

Apr

09

2010

This is where you will find us today and what a beautiful day it is.

Had written a lot about 5 minutes ago and lost it all.  So this is going to be short as I have things to do, places to go.  Hurricanes to drink.  HA!  Hurricanes are wonderful but they have a tendency to make my eyes cross. So I think I will stick to something a little more benign like margaritas!

Cafe du Monde has turned into our favorite 5PM place.  Big breakfast around 11 or so, then coffee and biegnets at 5 and then dinner around 8 or 9.  Thanks for the suggestion Linkmeister--it was going to be either Commanders tonight (Kate’s suggestion) or Antoine’s--but now I think we are going to play it by ear, maybe go into one of the little places along the French Market since we will be in that area all day.  Need to do a little shopping today too as we leave early tomorrow morning.

We are at the Hilton Riverside and our room is right on the riverside.  What a wonderful view to wake up to each day - this river is one busy place.

SO NOLA has lived up to my expectations, have thoroughly enjoyed it.  Would I come back again?  Probably not.  I wish I had come here 20 years ago when it would have been perfectly normal to drink and party 24/7.  Now not so much.  Restrooms are skanky though and that really is annoying Cuts down on the drinking part though!!  Some are fine, some are horrible and more than a few have been disgusting.  Oh well adds to the experience though.

Gotta run, have a great day, I should be back to posting my usual nonsense by Sunday or Monday, I think,

OH, one more note.........there is a Republican leadership conference here at the same hotel we are staying at.  They all came in yesterday.  Never seen so much red in one place in my life.  Someone who operates one of the tour company said to me, you are not part of that Republican group are you?  I said, lord no.  She said good, cause we are never happy when they are around, they are the tightest, the stingiest, the most unpleasant group.  I said they are Republicans, what do you expect?  She goes, well if Michael Steele had not spent all that money in bondage clubs, maybe they would have a little more to spread around in tips and things.  I laughed.
That discussion led into one about the fact that racism is alive and thriving here in this country....there was more but I do not have time for it all now.  Suffice to say it was a good conversation, an interesting one!!

Ciao’