The Summer Bucket List

As most of you know, I just love a list. I can make a list of just about anything and I'll admit I've even made a list of lists once or twice before. Ya'll know know I have a bucket list or two... but today's rainy weather somehow inspired a summer bucket list. We thought we'd share. Here are some of our plans over the next couple months:

Outdoor Adventures:
-Go Stand Up Paddleboarding
-Take the Ferry to Ship Island
-Explore St. Bernard State Park
-Go to Colorado!

Food Adventures:

-Manhattan Jacks

-District Hand Pies and Coffee

-Breads on Oaks

-Toast

-P’s and Q’s

-Country Club for Brunch

-Another Broken Egg Café

-Tableau

-Brigtsen’s

-Brown Butter

-NOLA Smokehouse

-Rocky & Carlos

-Austin’s Steakhouse

Personal Adventures:
-Michelle: write a Memories of New Orleans mini-book
-Michelle: develop a yoga practice
-Matt: finish writing at least one book
-Matt: make homemade pasta sauce

Crawfish for Everyone

One thing is for sure, New Orleans knows how to throw a party! Our company picnic was a crawfish boil and there were literally 12 table tops FULL of crawfish, sausage, potatoes, corn and garlic. To top that, we even had Plum Street Snoballs there making snoballs for all of us! It was a great time :)

 

What Snoball Flavor are You?

Yes!!!! It is snoball time again- the only good thing about summer in New Orleans in my opinion! We made it over to Plum Street on Sunday- the Nectar Cream and Blackberry Cream were delicious as always! The best use of $2 I can think of!!

New Orleans is Margaritaville

On May 6 we headed to the French Quarter to enjoy some time outside and to hear some live music. With all the "local" options, somehow we ended up at Margaritaville....but you know, New Orleans is Margaritaville. It's like the motto of the whole city is "it's 5 o'clock somewhere". I'm sure the honky tonk country tunes of "Bicycle Jones" lured us in. Somewhere between Alan Jackson and George Straight covers it just felt like Tennessee to me. It didn't hurt that Happy Hour Hurricanes were only $4 either! Here's a photo of us on our way to dinner.

Canoeing on the Bayou

The first weekend in May was a big one: Tulane baseball game on Friday along with the best root beer on the planet at Ted's Frost Top, a delicious brunch at Canal Street Bistro, a convertible drive and a moonlight canoe trip through Cane Bayou on Saturday, followed with jazz brunch at Palmetto's on the Bayou and a beach day in Biloxi on Sunday! Living it up :)