I've labeled today's blog post "Human Day" since it is just about us humans. Mat is safely tucked away in the hotel parking garage where only valets dare to tread. We "did the French Quarter" today (a place much too crowded and anxiety inducing to roll Mat around in) and the photos we have to show for it are about food and architecture so we don't blame you if you skip by this Mat-less blog post. Take it easy, y'all! :)
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| Victoria enjoys some iron work balconies in the French Quarter, New Orleans |
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| The horse-drawn carriages were all mule-drawn (we don't know why). New Orleans |
What we ate: One simply cannot miss the following when eating one's way though the French Quarter: powdered sugar-coated fried bread called
beignets and chickory flavored cafe au lait at
Cafe Du Monde for breakfast and an oyster
Po' boy for lunch.
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| Delicious powdered sugar coated beignets and cafe au lait at Cafe Du Monde |
We lucked out when a stroll down
Bourbon Street led us right into NOLA's annual
Oyster Jubilee where a collection of NOLA restaurant chefs got together to create the Longest Po' Boy in the World. We were an hour or so shy of when they actually assembled and cut the city block long sandwich (and gave it away for free) so we bought one for lunch a few blocks away. Fried oysters, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and mustard on a fluffy white roll. A thing of beauty!
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| The table is set for the World's Longest Po'Boy! Bourbon St. |
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| A celebrity chef demonstrates how to dress a perfect Po' Boy sandwich. |
We wandered around and ran into an employee of a (rich!!!) homeowner in the French Quarter and as we were admiring the house and grounds, he was lovely enough to volunteer that it was the home of a wealthy chef and oh, by the way, the house across the street belongs to
Francis Ford Coppola and the one further down was
Nicolas Cage's for a while, and that many people mistake this (the house we were admiring) house for
Brangelina's but that one is actually two blocks down. Did we go look for it? Of course!
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| The French Quarter house we THINK is Brad and Angie's |
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