My, we’ve had a
My, we’ve had a lazy day. Since we were up so remarkably late last night (for which I blame my husband for his 3 AM munchies), we slept in this morning and finally rolled out of bed around 1. Well, I rolled out of bed; hub lounged around and watched TV. We headed over to Mother’s Restaurant for some debris poboys and etouffee. ‘Debris’ is the stuff that’s left soaking in the juices after you cook roast beef. It’s famously good. They serve shredded cabbage instead of lettuce on their sandwiches, so you don’t get that nasty wilted flavor.
Then we drove over to the D-Day museum, but they stop selling tickets at 3:45 so we didn’t get in. We’re planning on getting up while the clock still reads “AM” tomorrow, so hopefully we’ll go then.
Then we proceeded to get lost while trying to find Metarie Cemetery and ended up crabbing at each other the whole way there. We found it and scooted through, not wishing to be locked in when they closed the gates at 5:30. Spending the night in a New Orleans boneyard is not my idea of a fun time. Especially when we have reservations at NOLA tonight.
On the way back we got lost again and ended up in the projects. We felt just a wee bit out of place, between the fancy car and the color of our skin. We were both humming “One of these things is not like the other” until we got out.
Oh, and driving in this town sucks. The streets are narrow and bumpy, there are kamikaze pedestrians, street signs are one sided facing the wrong way on one way streets, and in one memorable intersection between a fairly-busy road and the interstate access road, there are no stopsigns. To my credit, I did not shriek a bone-piercing yell at that point, although I did sing “Nobody has a stopsiiiiiign” rather loudly.
I almost forgot to mention that we’re staying next to the Ritz Carlton, and last night when we went out there was an obnoxiously huge RV with shaded windows offloading an obnoxiously large amount of luggage and the guys doing it were taking up the whole sidewalk. I wondered what cele it belonged to. About a half block away we passed a group of people and one of them was either Reese Witherspoon or her doppelganger. Maybe it was her junk littering up the walkway.