Pink houses. Yellow houses. Mint houses. Elaborate iron work. Cascading plants from balconies. I love the architecture of New Orleans. It speaks to my pastel colored soul.
This is another city where Eryn and I logged miles, a little over 20 over two days. And plenty of calories as we took in the Cajun food. I’m hoping it balanced out.
I want to quickly note the difference between the first beignets (the pastries with powdered sugar). The first ones are the ones Eryn and I put the sugar on at a coffee shop with some of the best ratings on roadfood.com. And then the ones we got at a different restaurant where they did the sugar. Apparently, we could have been more generous. Though, we did leave a pile of sugar on the plate.
We also spent some time down on the river.
There were great rope swings in the trees. We also met some very hippy, serene singers with great dogs.
As for the night life, we spent about an hour on Bourbon Street, a place where drinking is a sporting event and things that would be taboo anywhere else are norm.
After staying long enough to check it off our bucket list, we headed over to the New York Times recommended Frenchmen Street. Frenchmen is a lot more artsy, with a different live band at every bar and an occasional local. The art market is the type of place you can meet someone with the phases of the moon tattooed across their cheeks.
And, of course, I did some shopping. As Eryn started to joke, this was my shopping tour of America. I love local, art and vintage  just about as much as I love mint. Florals are great too.
Basically, New Orleans was great, and Eryn and I will have more to say about it, as well a lot of music clips a little later.
Stories of U.S. 
Love New Orleans, as a Gardner Ex-Pat living in Louisiana I enjoy the French dialect and inflection in the speech. Living in CenLa we see more of the Cajun and creole culture. Louisiana has many ex Gardnerites Glad you enjoyed our adopted home
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