At the beginning of December, Chad and I visited New Orleans. Chad was invited to a big pharmacy ASHP meeting so I got to tag along with him. He came in the day before I did and hung out with his friend Ben from work. I read all over that you have to go down Bourbon Street. When I talked to him the next day, he told me that he doesn't think I want to go down Bourbon Street. I was curious so asked why. Apparently, he and Ben had gone down there and it was pretty scandalous. Nice. But really, what do expect of a city that you get a plastic bead necklaces thrown at you if you flash someone? A lot like the Vegas strip condensed into a very small street. Needless to say, the night I came in, the group we were with wanted to go to a restaurant on said street but luckily it was at the start where there was no scandal to be found. So I guess I walked 20 yards onto Bourbon Street, restaurant was packed, turned around and found somewhere else to eat. As seen below.
Holy everything fried fried food! I could only handle that for one night! Wasn't horrible but wasn't amazing. Mulates was fun because it had a live band and there was this old couple two stepping on their dance floor.
We stayed at the Hilton Riverside. You could walk out and see the Muddy Mississippi River and sometimes hear the ship's horns. It was pretty huge. I sat out there one day when Chad was busy and read a book. Without Kels around it was nice just to relax for a while.
This was the VA's poster at the conference center. This day, they were trying to recruit pharmacy residents to their program. So they would talk and answer questions. They had tons of applications this year. While Chad was doing his recruiting, I walked around the city a little bit. I didn't feel as safe here as I did in D.C. It's funny because I went all over D.C. on the subway and everything. New Orleans is just not my kind of town.
Eventually, we did get out of the city and took a tour to a plantation called Oak Alley with Ben and Art. This is Ben below with me. We were freezing! The first days we were there was overcast but in the 70's. Then a cold front came through and it was windy and 50's. Bbuurrrr. The bus driver that took us over to Oak Alley told us every bit of info about New Orleans that we could handle! But it was entertaining. The gentlemen who did the tour inside the plantation house had this great accent and was fun to listen to. When we left, I told him thank you and shook his hand and he said "Thank you, Baby." Probably the only time someone has called me 'baby' and I haven't been offended. He was lucky he had a cool accent and was older:)
You can't take any pics inside but look how beautiful the front yard is. The oak trees are just magnificent and they intertwined at the top. It was gorgeous!
A gas burning lamp. There were a few all over. We both thought these were really neat. I think they had some gas burning lamps in London but I'm not sure.
One night, we went out with all the pharmacy people from the VA and we ordered charbroiled oysters. They were awesome! I saw what a raw oysters looked like and definitely passed on those suckers. I'm usually up to try anything but not those boogers. Yuck! The last night we went out for a lobster dinner at The Star where I had bought a Groupon. It was pretty good but I think the oysters where the best things we tried! I don't think I'll go back to New Orleans but it was fun to check out.
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