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Sooooo we now found ourselves in the Sunshine State, in the pouring rain! It was biblical! On our first night we sat in and watched the Mystery Detectives and ate an entire family bag of Lays between us for dinner, we called this crisps and crime 'how we solved a crime with just a speck of orange paint, a piece of plastic and a single dog hair...'
The next day we got up and went to Walmart the biggest supermarket in the WORLD and got fly repellent and toiletries and stuff then drove back to the apartment got the address for the Schooners Lobster Festival and set off walking, it wasn't long until the heavens opened again and we thought 'ahh this will pass its just a shower' well! An hour later it had not passed and we could not have been wetter when we arrived at what we thought was the festival, wrong again, an hour away from our apartment soaking wet and lost... Living the dream! Still we didn't give up and headed back along the beach looking for lobster! Another hour passes and we're on our knees when the Sheriff drives past and asks where we're headed and where our car is, anyway he must have taken pity on us as he told us to jump in the back of his pick up and he dropped us to the festival :-)
We tried all kinds of lobster dishes and had a couple of drinks with a lovely couple from Birmingham, Alabama, Jeff and Kelly, he explained loads of things about American politics and Obamacare that we weren't aware of, he also gave us a great tip for getting rid of street hasslers in New Orleans 'I told him I'd shoot him with my gun' :-) we had a great evening and the lovely Jeff and Kelly dropped us home which saved us from getting lost and drenched again :-)
When we got up we set off for New Orleans, or N'awlins as we were frequently corrected :-)
New Orleans is like no place I've ever been before, Bourbon Street and Royal Street, though a stones throw away from each other are as different as Spearmint Rhino is to The Savoy, there were refined French restaurants with hotdog vendors outside, full of beautiful ornate balconies that no one sat on, our tour guide said of the eccentrics of the US 'New York tolerates them, California hides them and New Orleans encourages them' there were marching bands and streetcars and street performers and saxophonists and brass bands and skinny bohemians and every nationality you could find in a map all living in this sort of child like ideal of 19th Century Paris on steroids, it was spectacular.
And that is where I shall leave this blog :-)
Lots of love xx
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John Wish I was there johnny ipad x
Stephyloo Ahhhhh hey johnny iPad! I miss you! I hope you had fun with my parents last night :-) see you soon :-) xxxxx
Gam Hi you, so good to hear from you. Peggy Jo said that she enjoyed meeting you and thought that you were a very nice young lady. Hey so do I! Ha. Must say that your blog took me back to when I was in New Orleans for the Mardi gra about 100 years ago.lots of interesting places to see. Keep the blogs coming. Love you x