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 :)

A Month Later...

I can't believe it has been a month since our last post! How did that happen??? I guess we have just been busy with trips to Tennessee and work. Not our typical New Orleans month. We are looking forward to festival season. This weekend is French Quarter Fest and Jazz Fest will be here in a couple weeks. Of course, it is also snoball season AND crawfish season. Fall and all the Halloween festivities are my favorite but it's hard to compete with springtime in the Big Easy. I have a few photos to share. These are from the neighborhood...I just love the cute shotgun styles.

 

 
 

Date Night at Barcadia

Each week we have "date night". We take turns planning unique or fun dates for each other and many times they are even surprises. We've had themed dinners at home (think Harry Potter feast) to Brazilian Steakhouse dinners in Baton Rouge. We've gone to comedy shows, played games, went hiking, and on and on. We do lots of thing together throughout the week, but date night is set aside as an opportunity to "treat" each other and really plan out something fun with the other one in mind. This week Matt and I went to "Barcadia"- a trendy arcade bar in the Central Business District. The cheese curds alone were worth the trip, but the burgers and praline bacon were a close second. We spent the evening playing skiball, air hockey and vintage arcade games. It was a fun night :)

Barcadia Bar & Arcade

Cheese Curds!!!