So this is a weird way to put this, but I keep thinking it – if 2012 is my last year to live (and it almost certainly isn’t), I am definitely living it right! I had a pitch perfect Christmas, a slam dunk Mardi Gras, an amazing trip outside the country, a majorly fun visit…
Category: New Orleans
Rainy Day
It frequently rains in and around New Orleans, leading to the short-term flooding of low-lying areas. The local news broadcasts segments that consist of sopping wet reporters gravely warning their viewing public to drive very slowly lest they push the water in the street up into people’s front doors. I don’t know if this ever…
Sunday Morn
It is Palm Sunday. Each Palm Sunday and Sunday-before-Christmas, our church hires a huge orchestra and they accompany our choir in a service-long musical extravaganza. No sermon, no Bible readings, nothing but the classical piece. We’re doing Mozart’s Grand Mass today. I sit in the very front of the stage, inches from a three-foot drop-off….
Lundi Gras and Mardi Gras – Wrapping Up the Best Mardi Gras EVER (with a lot of pictures)
Lundi Gras (Fat Monday) was another day of day parades. We missed pretty much all of them, because they don’t run past my house and they DO run during naptime – ergo, inconvenient. I have a friend who lives on the route, however, and he always throws a party (similarly to ours), inviting all to…
Parades # 7, 8, & 9 – The Best Day of Mardi Gras
**TWO NOTES: Firstly, I have only two children. I described myself as a thirty three year old mother of three in the last post – I think I was hypnotized by all of the threes in my age. NO SECRET BABIES! Promise! Secondly, my BIL gave me his pix from several of the parades I…