Friday

Walked around the edge of the French Quarter yesterday evening, and ate at a marvelous restaurant on Decatur just off of Canel called Cafe Giovanni. Great food (I had Voodoo Shrimp, oh my) and live entertainment. A pianist plays starting around 19:00 or so, and at intervals a tenor comes in and sings either Neapolitan songs or arias from various operas or operetta's. He doubles as one of the managers.

Heading back to the hotel where my friend and dinner companion is staying we passed by Harrah's Casino. On the steps of the casino were something between 100 - 200 people dressed in antebellum gowns, with the gentlemen in appropriate attire. Some of the gentlemen were wearing American Civil War era military attire, both Union and Confederate, others were wearing civilian attire. They were posing for a group photograph.

We wandered over, myself thinking this could well be a re-creation club, and discovered they are from a auto sales company in Spain, here on vacation (partially it is a reward for performance thing as well). So I guess last night's event was the costume ball.

I missed getting up early enough for sunrise photography. The crud I started the week with isn't totally gone, and all of you who do cons or ren faires know how much energy that involves. This is much the same thing, and I just couldn't get myself out of bed that early this morning. Tomorrow will be off to home, so today's play will be either to ride the trolley out into the Garden District or walk through the French Quarter and photograph architecture.

First, clean up and a breakfast.

A N'Orleans Saturday Afternoon

( So, how did I spend my Saturday Afternoon? )

( Pinhole Photography )

( Walk along Poydras )

( Lunch in the French Quarter )

( The Pharmacy Museum )

( Past a Photography Gallery )

And that's how I spent my second Saturday afternoon in N'Orleans.

Procrastination

I'm procrastinating shutting down the computer; the high speed Internet is nice. And I paid for it, so I want to use it all!

That said, here's a meme:

What type of anime characters are your friends? by Bassfreak127
Your LJ/Xanga name:
Is a very powerful ninja	janetmiles
Uses magic	betnoir
Is the comic relief and serves no actual purpose	joedecker
Gets badly hurt ever episode	marjai
Is the one in the very skimpy outfit that always gets hit on	redlillymodel
The silent person whos exploding with power	pdxmarine
(Check here if this is a Xanga account, not an LJ: )

anime pictures, anime backgrounds, Inuyasha wallpaper, and Inuyasha pictures at Anime Cubed!

And, another:

My Unitarian
Jihad Name is: Brother Shotgun of Looking at All Sides of the Question.

Get yours.

NOLA Jazz Festival

Apparently, it includes a fireworks show. I can't see it directly from my window, but I can hear it!

My bags are packed. Except for the carry on with the computer. I'm debating last-minuting it, as it's an early day tomorrow. I'll be getting up by six thirty latest, possibly earlier.

But I'm having fun with the Internet!