Well, we've just returned from our 2006 vacation and I've decided to describe it in two separate posts on the website. The first part of the trip was a three-day stay in Baton Rouge with Mamere and Pops. After an uneventful day of travel from NJ to Baton Rouge we had an action-packed visit. First, we brought the kids down to New Orleans for a day of fun. We intentionally chose to stay in the areas of town that either weren't heavily damaged in Katrina or had recovered. Because this was the kids' first real visit to N.O., and Lisa and I had not visited in several years, we elected to stick with things that would be fun for the kids, and would remind Lisa and me of all the good times we had in the city. Highlights were a stroll through campus at Tulane, lunch at Cooter Browns (yes, I took my children to a bar), a visit to the N.O. Aquarium, shopping in the French Market, and beignets to go from Cafe du Monde on the way out of town.
As you might expect we were exhausted after all that, but intrepid travelers that we are, we soldiered on the next day with a trip to downtown B.R. to explore the U.S.S. Kidd, a retired detroyer that is docked on the Mississippi River and open for tours. My cousin Karen, her husband Jim and their kids Emily, Elliott and Erin drove down from Vicksburg to join us on the Kidd and for a visit to12669 Mollylea. Then after a superb dinner of crawfish etouffee prepared by Pops, we got a good night's sleep and took off the next morning for a week in Destin. I'll cover that in the next post.
In the meantime, here are some of the better pictures of our trip to New Orleans.
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