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ateolfAfter our little jazz show we went over to a place called Jewel of the South for a nice fancy dinner. (Did we do something else in between? I can't recall.) We had real caviar and Mary Beth was over the moon about it. I got this duck sausage and it had the duck's head and everything (I guess it's weird looking at what you're eating but the food was tasty). Did we do anything after that? Probably I don't recall.
Oh, forgot to mention that on Saturday night, after everything I did remember, we walked over to this bar in the CBD Mary Beth had loved before called Loa. First actually we made a mistake. She was mixing it up with The Sazerac Room which is the bar in a different hotel (The Roosevelt) and that hotel was having some Christmas lights display and the whole downstairs was just packed to the gills and we had to slowly make our way through all the people. Then we realized this wasn't the right place which was a relief that we didn't have to keep putting up with that crowd. So we got out of there and made it to the International Hotel where Loa actually is and had a few drinks. I requested some mocktails and the flaming stick of cinnamon in Mary Beth's first drink made me crave something cinnamony so I asked the bartender for maybe something with cinnamon and he was like "I'll see what I can do." But then the drink I got had both grapefruit and cinnamon and it was not at all a combination I would have ever thought of but the result was one of the most magical things I've ever tasted (magical in a huge part because of the unexpectedness, of course, but really, it was delicious). So yeah, grapefruit and cinnamon, yeah! (There was other stuff going on too, it was very complex but also smooth and rich, I'll stop going on about this darn drink now).
Okay, so now I can pick up with Monday. I know I'm forgetting some stuff with food. I can fill in the blanks I later I guess. Oh, I think this morning we went to Slim Goodies and had some amazing potato stuff (she had latkes and I had hash browns) topped with delicious etouffee. We had a little time to kill so we walked around the corner and found a little coffee shop and sat on a little stage with nice comfy chairs and read while drinking our drinks. Then we went over to Mardi Gras World. It's the place where they make the statue things that go on the floats at Mardi Gras. They also make those for other events like sports and restaurants and stuff (some are permanent fiberglass and most are temporary with styrofoam and papier-mache though those can get recycled and repurposed). So it's a big warehouse on the wharf where those are made (they also have a bunch of other warehouses where they're stored). So in this we got a lot of info on how the whole krewe and float business works (we didn't even know how many days before Mardi Gras the parades go for). That whole aesthetic with the Mardi Gras floats is decidedly not my thing, but it was a fun tour and pretty interesting. Then we went back to the CBD where we did a tour at The Sazerac House. It's all about the history of bars and drinking and stuff in NOLA. There's some good and fun history in there, but mostly it's a big advertisement for the company that sponsors it. Also because it's very corporate, it's more hi-tech so there are lots of interactive digital exhibits and that whole thing isn't my favorite either, but I did enjoy learning about what I did learn there. Okay, that was a short one so, sorry. But now off to another post.
Oh, forgot to mention that on Saturday night, after everything I did remember, we walked over to this bar in the CBD Mary Beth had loved before called Loa. First actually we made a mistake. She was mixing it up with The Sazerac Room which is the bar in a different hotel (The Roosevelt) and that hotel was having some Christmas lights display and the whole downstairs was just packed to the gills and we had to slowly make our way through all the people. Then we realized this wasn't the right place which was a relief that we didn't have to keep putting up with that crowd. So we got out of there and made it to the International Hotel where Loa actually is and had a few drinks. I requested some mocktails and the flaming stick of cinnamon in Mary Beth's first drink made me crave something cinnamony so I asked the bartender for maybe something with cinnamon and he was like "I'll see what I can do." But then the drink I got had both grapefruit and cinnamon and it was not at all a combination I would have ever thought of but the result was one of the most magical things I've ever tasted (magical in a huge part because of the unexpectedness, of course, but really, it was delicious). So yeah, grapefruit and cinnamon, yeah! (There was other stuff going on too, it was very complex but also smooth and rich, I'll stop going on about this darn drink now).
Okay, so now I can pick up with Monday. I know I'm forgetting some stuff with food. I can fill in the blanks I later I guess. Oh, I think this morning we went to Slim Goodies and had some amazing potato stuff (she had latkes and I had hash browns) topped with delicious etouffee. We had a little time to kill so we walked around the corner and found a little coffee shop and sat on a little stage with nice comfy chairs and read while drinking our drinks. Then we went over to Mardi Gras World. It's the place where they make the statue things that go on the floats at Mardi Gras. They also make those for other events like sports and restaurants and stuff (some are permanent fiberglass and most are temporary with styrofoam and papier-mache though those can get recycled and repurposed). So it's a big warehouse on the wharf where those are made (they also have a bunch of other warehouses where they're stored). So in this we got a lot of info on how the whole krewe and float business works (we didn't even know how many days before Mardi Gras the parades go for). That whole aesthetic with the Mardi Gras floats is decidedly not my thing, but it was a fun tour and pretty interesting. Then we went back to the CBD where we did a tour at The Sazerac House. It's all about the history of bars and drinking and stuff in NOLA. There's some good and fun history in there, but mostly it's a big advertisement for the company that sponsors it. Also because it's very corporate, it's more hi-tech so there are lots of interactive digital exhibits and that whole thing isn't my favorite either, but I did enjoy learning about what I did learn there. Okay, that was a short one so, sorry. But now off to another post.
