Throw me something, Mister!

Day 3 of our Baton Rouge/ New Orleans Trip- Sunday February 15, 2009.

Stephen and I spent Sunday alone without his parents. While we love being with them, since this was our anniversary trip we wanted some time to ourselves. The past two years for our anniversary we have gone somewhere. The first year we went Downtown and stayed at the Four Seasons and last year we went to Galveston. I have been wanting to go to New Orleans for a while, so since we were already so close and our anniversary was just a week away, we decided this would be our anniversary trip this year.

When we woke up Stephen was not feeling so well from our night before, so it took him a while to get up and moving. We got in a cab and headed towards the French Quarter. We found a little Italian food restaurant and had a nice meal. We got calamari and shared a pizza and sat outside on the patio right across from the French Market.

After lunch, we started walking down the French Market. We went in a few stores and then went up to the Riverwalk and sat for a while. The weather was clearing up and it was becoming a beautiful afternoon. We then continued walking around the French Quarter and Jackson Square.

As we were walking around the French Quarter we saw these amazing street performers. They were all dressed up and would hold a pose, being completely still. The most amazing one was a guy on a ladder. I don't know how he balanced on this ladder, but he had a 2x4 balanced on his shoulder and he wasn't moving at all. It was amazing!

There were also some amazing art galleries and furniture/antique stores in the French Market. We saw this really neat scuplture of golf tees. If it wasn't $3000 I think we would have bought it.

We were making our way back to our hotel to rest a little when we came across this parade on Canal Street. It was a small Mardis Gras parade, but it was still fun to watch for a while.

After we had some time to rest, we went back out. We walked back to the French Market and had dinner at a little restuarant. Then we walked around the French Quarter some more and made our way up to Bourbon Street and went to Pat O'Brien's. We saw Steve and Nancy there and they were about to leave to go to dinner so they gave us their seats. We had a blast there again and did not drink so many Hurricane's this time. When we left there, we walked back down to the French Market to go to Cafe Du Monde. When we had been by there in the afternoon it was packed, but tonight it wasn't busy at all. We had the famous beinets! They were fabulous!

After Cafe Du Monde, we made our way back to our hotel. We had a great day, but were exhasuted!