Girls trip - Part II

O.K., so the first day was all about the party! Yeah, so are the rest! We were up and at em at about 9:00 and had breakfast at that venerable New Orleans classic Le Mc Donalds. (right next to our hotel) Our tour guide, C (who lived there for a year right befoe Katrina)felt badly that we hadn%26#39;t really experienced much of the city the day before walked us to the river walk, through Jackson square, including St. Louis Cathedral and past cafe du monde, which had a line about a block long, and back past Cafe Beignet, (where we finally got chickory coffee and beignets)

We originally had reservations at Commanders Palace for lunch today, but at some point during the night before, had decided that this would be a good day to go to Jazz Fest, so surrendered the CP reservations.

When we got back from our trek through the French Quarter, about noon, we got our Jazz Fest tickets from the concierge along with transportation tickets. Very convenient, especially once we saw the long ticket lines at the fest. the bus was air conditioned and very comfortable for #15 round trip.

I thought Jazz Fest was amazing. As a long time fan of outdoor music festivals, I thought it was the best yet. The food variety was amazing! We did run into a problem when we went to the Acura stage to watch Bonnie Raitt and discovered the HUGE crowd, though. We went and stood, experiencing people rudely cutting right through us. We took lemons and made lemonade when we started giving people ';Love Sandwiches'; by squishing everyone who cut between us. That was fun and funny till we had to go to the ladies room and discovered that it took us about forty minutes just to get out of the crowd. WOW! We didn%26#39;t want to get back into that scene after that. We went to the Gospel tent after that, blues tent, then some of the girls really felt they needed to get out of the crowd entirely. I totally understood, even though I personally would have liked to stay and hear sugarland.

We went back to the hotel, and went to jump in the pool. It had been a very hot day for us buckeye chicks. The only negative thing I can say about our hotel is that there is no whirlpool and the pool, well, sucks. It%26#39;s tiny and cloudy to the point of gross. We showered and ended up back on Bourbon St. Went to Pat O%26#39;Brians, loved it but couldn%26#39;t get served for dinner and went across the street to a place called Sammy%26#39;s, a steakhouse. It took a while to get served dinner here as it was almost 10:00. Ended up with a steak that was sub par for ohio, but then again, we weren%26#39;t in Ohio. We went there because I thought one of us would starve if not fed soon.

Still, it was a great day, full of wonderful music, lots of people, crawfish Monica (Yum) breadpudding at Jazzfest (double yum) and again the best girls ever. I must be the luckiest girl in the world.

Girls trip - Part II

LOL! I love the ';Love Sandwich'; idea! You%26#39;ve caught on to the old Southern adage of ';kill %26#39;em with kindness'; quickly, I see.

I%26#39;m jealous because I can%26#39;t organize my group of ya-ya%26#39;s to make a girl%26#39;s trip!!