Tolentreasures

Oh, there are tons more pics of houses and food...TONS! But these will be the last pics, then I have to go back to the real world, there is work at the shop and our open house is less than a month away. I have to WORK! John had two damsel in distress moments on the trip. One was this woman on the ferry who could not get her parking break off to move off the ferry. He finally got the problem solved, however he could not understand the woman's Spanglish and she put John on the phone with her husband and he was worse. The other incident was in a little gallery on Royal Street where the owner/artist was flying around in a tizzy having lost her cell phone. She felt sure that someone had stolen it. John calmly tells her to call her phone and offers his to her to use. She declines, realizing that she has a land line in the shop, calls it and finds her cell phone ringing in the bathroom under the toilet paper. We leave after she thanks him over and over again. About a half a blo...

Always looking for an out of the way place to eat, we found this place last night just a short ferry ride across the water. Everyone is so helpful here, if you even look a little confused, someone just is ready and willing to help you and answer questions. On the ferry ride across the river, we talked to a young architect on her way home from work. She was so informative and interesting and I felt as if I learned so much about the city from her. This place, the Dry Dock Cafe had a terrific waitress, Robin, that had tons of information of where to go and what to do. These were some of our pics from last night. The days have been spent at the trade show. Tomorrow is our free day though and I want to get to the French Market and to Cafe du Monde yet. Also would like to do a little daylight shopping in the French Quarter. What a great classic rock band! Old Opera House on Bourbon Street. This gentlemen played the request of Free Bird on the wineglasses. City view at night from the ...