marathoner452

Start off with a drive up Esplanade to Carrollton to Canal and have lunch at Mandina's. Then walk all the way around City Park on a crystal clear day that just doesn't happen too often in New Orleans, just warm enough and hardly any humidity. The New Orleans Museum of Art is right there and it's free to Louisiana residents, so check that out for awhile. Then hit Rouse's for file powder and head back down Carrollton to Basil Leaf for a delicious Thai dinner, during which you watch the streetcar rattle by and after which you walk the rest of the way up Carrollton to the Riverbend levee. Walk along the levee for awhile, with the river on one side and the city on the other and stars shining bright overhead, only to get cut off from the rest of the city by the train. Finally, end up at Creole Creamery for dessert of chocolate chicory ice cream in a waffle cone. Waffle cones taste like fortune cookies.

Thanks ekaterinn. I needed that. We both needed to not be teachers for a day.