May 5, 2011

A Week In New Orleans




Look Mommy, I'm good at packing a suitcase!




Ellie Belly on her very first airplane ride!



Fried crawdads and chicken strips at the Storyville Restaurant



Mommy and Ella celebrate their first successful plane trip - our two flights arrived in New Orleans within five minutes of each other!



Matti and Ella at the mouth of the Mississippi River (or at least as close to the mouth as we reasonably expect to get).... who put fingerprints the camera lens? Matti, I'm looking in your direction.



Feeding the penguins at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas



Froggy went a'courtin', he did ride



Hanging out at the hotel pool



Our smiles belie how FRIGID the water was - the pool was in shade most of the day



That's Aubrey. 'nuff said.



Riding the streetcar to the zoo...



The Jewish Community Center, Dana's base of operations in Nola during Katrina relief



Waiting for the next streetcar....



It pains me to think this wonderful car probably used to run the streets of the Twin Cities, until that jerk sold most of the cars off and burned the rest




Mommy and Ella in front of one of the elefantes (we think Aubrey has forgotten how to say "elephant" in English)



Riding the endangered species carousel - Matti asked for and got the black rhino



Matti builds a pillow fort ... we had a lot of down time in the hotel room



Belly boofers, gotcha Ella!



Chowin' down at Deanie's Seafood



A riverboat and a saltie (?) heading up the Mississippi



You see two girls in a double stroller. I see Daddy getting fat.



Coffee and beignets at Cafe du Monde



My other two girls at Cafe du Monde





The blue cow. Yeah. We did that. Like my beads?



The girls with Jasper, our cab driver



Margaritaville New Orleans, French Quarter



Jasper's pal, Brown Sugar



Cookie!



A nice book for the plane ride home, nom nom nom

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