Known partially for its food, I thought I was going to have a struggle. After all, here's a short list of what I had to eat in our two days there: beignets (twice), Gulf shrimp, a giant shrimp Po' Boy, and gelato! Great.
But enough on that for now. Let's hit some of the other fun stuff we did!
Storyland
City Park in New Orleans has a little playground area that is themed after various nursery rhymes. It costs $3 per person to get in (and kids under 2 are free). I had forgotten to go to an ATM that day, so I had no cash and I did not see an ATM nearby. However, no problem there as they accept credit cards, too!
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| The Four Little Pigs and Mommy! |
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| Mommy and Lily with a statue of the A-Team's George Peppard (AKA: Hannibal)! (Watch the pilot episode to understand the reference) |
The Best Place for Beignets?
Afterward, we went to a place in City Park for beignets. Even though they were good, they were hollow and at 3 for $2 vs. Cafe du Monde's much fuller ones at 3 for $2.42, that place isn't getting any free advertising from us. (Sorry.) So, here's a couple of shameless plugs for Cafe du Monde!
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| Cafe du Monde's beignets. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE! |
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| Bonus points scored for Cafe du Monde for the fish. |
Downtown
Due to us traveling with a 16 month old, we did not partake in any of the drunken debauchery that New Orleans is well known for. However, there were still some fun things to go do along the Mississippi River.
One night, we had dinner at a place called the Crazy Lobster. They had a Groupon deal for $25 where you could purchase up to $50 worth of food. So, here's what we got!
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| A CRAZY LOBSTER for Mommy! |
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| Nothing for Daddy. He's on a diet. |
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| Just kidding! Gulf shrimp for Daddy! |
As someone that grew up on breaded shrimp, I did not realize that there was some work involved to getting to the non-breaded shrimp that was on my plate. So, I was spitting out shells on my first couple before Heather told me I had to remove them. After that, it was smooth sailing.
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| This isn't from the Crazy Lobster, but I felt the need to share it anyway... |
Another place we went to, which was not too far from the Crazy Lobster, was the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas...and no, we didn't go there immediately before or after dinner! (Although, it would have been somewhat amusing!)
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| RIBBIT!!! |
Lily enjoyed it until we got to the bird exhibit. Then, she got terrified from the hundreds of live birds chirping--mostly parakeets and lorikeets. So, we got out as quickly as we possibly could, which was subject to when these evil little birds would get off of us!
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| One of Lily's calmer pictures with the birds... |
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| This place is for the birds... |
So, when mortal terror sunk in with our daughter, we got her out of there very quickly.
Hotel Fun!
In case you haven't been able to tell, we love to travel with our daughter. The only restriction that comes with traveling with a toddler has everything to do with getting her naps timed accordingly. In some cases, that may mean we didn't get to do as much as we originally set out to do. However, that can be made up with some of these hotel moments from New Orleans...
Our first story was about trying to get Lily to walk with us from the elevator to our hotel room. We would walk about 20-30 feet down the hallway and put her down on her feet. She would instantly turn around and walk past the elevator to THIS!
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| They have Mommy's Diet Coke... |
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| ...which I like because it's SHINY!!! |
The other really wasn't much of a story, just a moment of us looking outside from our hotel room one morning. That morning, New Orleans apparently had hurricane force winds, which topped at 84 mph. We looked down at the outdoor pool, which was a few stories down. We counted six chairs that had been blown into the pool, three patio tables overturned by the wind, and one torn patio umbrella. At one moment, Lily decided to point outward, which just looked cute...
TO BE CONCLUDED IN PART 3!!!
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