The week before Christmas we took a little road trip with my family down to, you guessed it Nawlans or New Orleans for all you Northerners (myself included). On the way there, we stopped in Memphis and toured Graceland.
Everyone enjoyed the tour and embraced the South as we encountered heavy Southern dialects, fried food, the abundance of trees and greenery, and most of all the weather that got warmer and warmer as we approached our destination. Mathew, my Southern boy, felt right at home. ;) As much as I joked and threw in some twang along the drive, I actually remembered how much I love the South. It actually made me want to move back. Just a little bit though.
As we encountered more and more swamp land, we got more and more excited. After having to go around the block and maneuver ourselves around a closed off Bourbon Street. ("Is this, like normal?!") and one way roads, we arrived at our our historical and beautiful hotel, The Inn on Bourbon Street.
After settling into our rooms overlooking the pool and courtyard, we walked down the middle of Bourbon Street and around the corner to The Gumbo Shop for dinner. They had delicious fruit daiquiris and gumbo, several types of each. After that, we walked around a little bit, were yelled at by strippers (not even joking) and people trying to get us to come into bars. It was quite the experience. We finally decided to stop in a little bar that had a band playing and got a couple drinks to end the night.
<my dad and sister doing a little dancing>
We went to bed at a somewhat decent hour since we were exhausted from driving all day (how does that happen by the way?) and knew that the next few days would be busy doing touristy things like going on a swamp tour, holding an alligator, eating amazing Cajun food, and seeing more of this historical and exciting city.
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