{"id":29117,"date":"2015-04-20T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=29117"},"modified":"2015-04-20T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:25:06","slug":"nola-day-2-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=29117","title":{"rendered":"Nola Day 2 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Nola Day 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After a restless night of sleep, we woke up this morning to the sounds of a water leak in our room. Not cool. I am no longer running a fever, but definitely not feeling 100%.<\/p>\n

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\nWe head to the hotel office to discuss our water leak situation. Maintenance will take care of it while we leave our room and go out and about our day. I hope they are able to fix it.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s past 10 by the time we got out and look, no rain! Let’s hope that it’ll stay dry for a while.<\/p>\n

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\nHeading to the aquarium, which is way on the other side of the French Quarter. It’ll be a nice walk…as long as it doesn’t rain.<\/p>\n

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\nA lot of useless stuff here.<\/p>\n

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\nI am sure I can find a use for this though. Maybe I’ll hide them in my friends’ purses when they aren’t looking…hahaha!<\/p>\n

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\nThe business end.<\/p>\n

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\nGotta hit up Cafe Du Monde later today.<\/p>\n

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\nJackson Square.<\/p>\n

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\nGloomy day with a layer of fog over the Mississippi. Just happy that it’s not raining at the moment.<\/p>\n

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\nThey were playing music by using the different pitched horns on this tourist steamboat.<\/p>\n

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\nAquarium just ahead. Now that we are walking, I am actually feeling pretty terrible. I feel so weak, and the fever may be creeping back.<\/p>\n

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\nI love aquariums!!<\/p>\n

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\nBut first, lunch at Drago’s, just right around the corner from the aquarium.<\/p>\n

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\nRL picked all the restaurants for this trip, and she really wanted to come here to eat their charbroiled oysters.<\/p>\n

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\nCrab salad and chicken\/sausage gumbo. It’s hard for me to appreciate gumbo that’s not my own, since I think I make the best gumbo, ever!<\/p>\n

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\nThe charbroiled oysters were pretty freaking good!! Worth the walk over here.<\/p>\n

During lunch, I must have downed 5 glasses of water. I guess I was dehydrated. The water and the food breathed some life back into me.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat do you know, when we got done with lunch, the sun had come out. What had been predicted as a full day of rain is turning out to be a pretty nice day.<\/p>\n

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\nI’ve never seen so many Big Ass fans in a row. But is it really necessary to have so many fans on an outdoor corridor?<\/p>\n

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\nHow do all these things always manage to get into my shoe!<\/p>\n

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\nSun, so bright.<\/p>\n

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\nYes yes, I am fixing my shoe yet again.<\/p>\n

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\nRL really wanted to try this sno-balls place right by the aquarium, but they are still closed. A shame, maybe we’ll try again tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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\nTime to visit the aquarium!<\/p>\n

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\nThis place is overrun by rug rats. Fortunately, it seems like the school field trips are actually ending instead of starting for the day.<\/p>\n

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\nYummy.<\/p>\n

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\nMore yummy.<\/p>\n

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\nYummy…maybe.<\/p>\n

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\nYummy…dead.<\/p>\n

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\nGet in my belly!<\/p>\n

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\nI like the captions. Touch me!!<\/p>\n

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\nOdd looking plant.<\/p>\n

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\nI think they should have piranha feeding shows at aquariums. I’d go watch them!<\/p>\n

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\nFugu!!<\/p>\n

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\nJust some sea horses chillin’ and relaxin’. They are such fascinating creatures, just putzing around with their tiny fast moving fins.<\/p>\n

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\nI like watching cuttlefishes. I want one as a pet.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat a terrible name.<\/p>\n

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\nI would like to eat you.<\/p>\n

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\nOdd that this aquarium has a display showing fake seafood…why have a fake display? Why not just have a living display of actual living edible seafood? I mean, it is an aquarium after all!<\/p>\n

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\nJam out with your clam out!<\/p>\n

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\nWhite alligator.<\/p>\n

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\nAsian human, Caucasian human.<\/p>\n

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\nSilly crab, can’t catch the fish.<\/p>\n

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\nSmarter crab, not sure if tastier though.<\/p>\n

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\nWait until you see it.<\/p>\n

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\nLook, it’s an owl! Didn’t think it was real until it moved. I want one as a pet.<\/p>\n

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So, that’s that for the aquarium visit. Can’t say it’s one of the better aquariums that I’ve visited, but I always appreciate visiting aquariums.<\/p>\n

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\nStill sunny, happy with this unexpected nice weather. Gonna take a lovely stroll to Cafe Du Monde for some coffee.<\/p>\n

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\nAn monument to me, just like the monument to me in Shanghai. See Shanghai Day 1 Part 1 under From Asia with Love.<\/p>\n

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\nOh, finally a convenience store. There aren’t too many of these around in Nola. I am still feeling not 100%, so in I go to get some Tylenol.<\/p>\n

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\nWash down my fever reducer with some delicious beignets and cafe au lait.<\/p>\n

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\nHow did they come to all the random prices for all their items?<\/p>\n

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\nEvery time I visit Cafe Du Monde, I always notice that the great majority of the waitstaff are Asian(probably Vietnamese). It’s so strange that I see no other Asian waitstaff at any other service establishment anywhere else in the city. One of those mysteries of life….or I guess I could just ask…<\/p>\n

To be continued at Nola day 2 Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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