Well I pawned my watch...
and I sold my ring...
Just to hear that girl sing...
~Spanish Moon~
I made my trip to New Orleans this past weekend... I wrote about the upcoming trip HERE. My daughter works at Tipitina's Uptown... one of my favorite bands (Little Feat) was scheduled to play Saturday night... Needless to say, I was NOT disappointed!! What a great show they provided. Obviously, one misses the voice of Lowell George, but your mind tends to insert his voice. The tricks our minds play on us sometimes...
'Tipitina's'
There are 1,001 great venues in which one can see great musicians and listen to their music in New Orleans... A word to the ladies that attend such shows, however...
Don't show up looking like this...
... and expect us guys to NOT look...
We are just wired that way...
What is a trip to New Orleans without
a visit to the French Quarter...
... and what is a trip to the French Quarter without a visit to the Cafe du Monde...
... where one can enjoy a cup of chicory coffee and an order of beignets...
Yum!!!
New Orleans is full of great restaurants... just full of them... my personal favorite is
Jacques-imo's... go HERE to visit their website... it's a great, little funky hole-in-the-wall restaurant that will just knock your socks off!!
This is what it looks like on the outside...
This is what it looks like on the inside...
The ambience is out of this world!!! This is my absolute most favorite-est place to eat in New Orleans... I tell myself that I need to try other restaurants, but... this place just won't let me. Have any of you ever dined here?
One my trip home, I was compelled to drive through Slidell, LA... and visit the grave site of my good buddy, Robert... he was my colleague that suddenly died two years ago. I wrote about him HERE, and HERE.
One of the things that has bothered me... is that on past trips to New Orleans, I would stop to visit Robert, and... he didn't have a headstone. I'm not sure why it bothered me, but it did. I was pleased to see that in the time since my last visit, he finally has one.
Odd how it made me feel better...
For Robert...
I still miss you, my friend...
Live oaks at City Park
New Orleans...
~shoes~
