Day 1 - The arrival

Hey y'all!  So we arrived in Nawlins, and found each other, even after Cara hid from Lara in the baggage claim! We went straight to the hotel, got our really cute room, and then went out in search of food.

Our food introduction to the Big Easy was Mother's Po'boys.... yummmmm!  We split a fried shrimp po'boy and a Ferdi's Famous Po'boy.  We both agreed that Ferdi's was far superior. It had their WORLD FAMOUS ham, roast beef, and debris. 

What is "debris" you ask?  Well good thing Cara watched the Travel Channel, otherwise we never would have known that it is all of the gravy and bits of meat left over from roasting beef.  Sooo delicious!  

Then we walked to Cafe du Monde, and had our requisite beignets and Lara had a cafe au lait.  The mountain of fried deliciousness and powdered sugar was completely what we had been hoping for.  And we decided that all of the waitresses there must hate their jobs because they were really sticky and one was crying. 

On our way home we stumbled upon a parade for St. Joseph, the patron saint of the working class, whom is celebrated mostly by Sicilians.  The first part was these girls riding on floats, but since it was raining they all had white plastic ponchos on and runny mascara, and the hoods made them look like it was a KKK parade.  I wonder if anyone thought of that when they were all getting dressed.  The second part of the parade was much better. Handsome Sicilian men giving out beads, silk flowers, garter belts, and lots and lots of kisses. All in red, green and white. 

We finished our first day celebrating on Bourbon Street. 

These are the things we did/saw:

- Danced to a live band playing the Temptations

- Made guys lift their shirts off and threw them some of our beads (that we did NOT have to flash to get)

- Laughed

- Were welcomed to "The Dirrty South" by men

- Danced to hip-hop

- Saw 2 girls flash for beads (someone should have told them that you don't have to flash anymore)

- Drank a REALLY bad hurricane

- Laughed

- Lara ate veggie pizza and gave one of her 2 slices to a homeless man

- Got wet in the rain

- Listened to very good jazz (live) coming out of every door

- Drank in the street - yay Go Cups!

- Laughed