Weekend in New Orleans

Spring Break was quite eventful this year, but the best was saved for last when Collin, Bryan, and I traveled on Thursday to New Orleans to spend a few days with Micah and Rhyne. We had a wonderful time. Thursday night, we had pizza and watched a movie before calling it a day. Both Friday and Saturday were jammed packed every minute with sight-seeing, shopping, or eating. Bryan crashed on the couch at his sister's apartment and Collin and I spent the night at the Providence Guest House, a property of the seminary. Here's a recap of our itinerary.

Friday

We began the day with a tour of the Garden District driving down St. Charles. The houses and gardens were beautiful and we saw an occasional trolley car.

We drove to the West Bank and crossed the Crescent City Connection which spans the Mississippi to see Micah's school and she also drove us by the church they attend.

We stopped off at a drum shop for Bryan to do some browsing.

We spent the afternoon at a shopping center. We took in Kirkland's, Dress Barn, World Trade Market, Pier I, and the guys took in Best Buy. I am somewhat envious that Micah has such great shopping opportunities in the big city.

We headed back to the apartment, picked up Rhyne from his day at the seminary, and went to Landry's Seafood for dinner. We had a great meal and enjoyed dining outside on the deck with a fantastic view of Lake Pontchatrain.

Saturday

We began early once again. Bryan had never been in the French Quarter so we headed out for more sightseeing. We had quite a walk stopping off at Jackson Square. The cathedral was beautiful and the horse drawn carriages are always captivating. People were everywhere.

I'm always taken by the buildings, balconies, wrought iron, and plants.
We perused the market district and saw trinkets, t-shirts, jewelry, galore, but Bryan was taken by one particular display that had a lot of instruments hand crafted. He selected a couple of them to bring home.

By this time, we were hungry again and sought out another unique cafe in the quarter to have lunch. We walked backed to the car and headed to Baton Rouge. Our destination goal was the campus of LSU. Bryan was interested since we were so close. It's a beautiful campus and it was huge. Another university to add to his list of those toured. We headed back to stop off at a Tanger Outlet Mall where Micah and I enjoyed the afternoon and the guys had an equally good time across the interstate at a massive Cabela's. We reached the city about 7 and had dinner at New Orleans Seafood and Burgers.

Sunday morning we packed up and headed home. We took the Causway to come home to enjoy the lake; it's beautiful and Bryan had never been across.

The weather the entire weekend was beautiful; sunny and in the 70s and 80s. Wish you could have been with us.

Marcia