Another conference day for me. But first, we ate Beignets – fried dough with powdered sugar. Yummm!
On the way back we caught some outdoor shots of our hotel. Our window is third from the left on the top floor.
No pics of supper tonight, which is OK because it wasn’t worth documenting anyway. The place we first thought about visiting was closed, and the next out of our budget range. So, we ended up at some joint with a name starting with ‘M’. The drinks were good, but the etouffee disappointing. This place didn’t seem to have any butter on the premises, and I don’t know how one can still call it etouffee with no butter. It was more of a crawfish stirfry over bland rice.
Another New Orleans tradition is to visit Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop. Touted as the oldset bar in the US, it uses candles instead of electric lights to illuminate the tables, and the furnishings and architecture convey an earlier time. However, the bright bulb over the bar and the wide screen TV on the wall, along with the cigarette machine and club music playing, kind of ruin the mood.
This is the place where we last year walked on to the set of “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter”. Now that we have been inside, it will be fun to watch the movie and look for our table.
Kelly convinced a few partiers on a balcony to throw down some beads. You can ask her how she did it.