Tour De Seanye: Nahleanss

Burr burr. Hello followers Sean decided to up his followers by allowing me to take the wheel. Let me say I was skeptical about this blogging thing because it reminds me of an online diary but hey if you can't beat 'em join 'em right? So here it goes. New Orleans was awesome. Hard to describe such a unique city filled with tradition and culture. We developed a new found appreciation for "dat" and the fleur de lis (hard to say with my affinity for anchors). The drive from Houston was beauuutiful, the stretches of bridges for 30 miles as the sunset were almost as pretty as Sean. We arrived just in time for a delicious dinner with my sorority sister Cece Carroll and her wonderful grandparents: PaPa and NaNa. We feasted on an authentic Italian Caprese Salad, Crawfish Etoufe and homemade wine from PaPa. Wow. So delicious! We felt the southern hospitality from the first step in the door. Though tempted to stay and hang with Papa and Nana all night, we decided to go out and see the night life of Nola. What a city! We passed by multiple Greek houses and hit up a Tulane staple bar called The Boot. It had a peacock-esk (corvallis) vibe very open and all college students. They had a sick happy hour from 4-10 so it was a happening spot plus they had many 90's hits playing--shout out Jenna Halberg and The Goofy Movie. Then we hit up a bar called Tipatina, where there was a yazz flute band (Ron burgundy achem Sammi Coates). But man such nice people of New Orleans and they are down to party. Except we did learn cab drivers have guns on hand eek! The real nawleans adventure started the next morning at the crack of dawn. We woke up at 5am Nola time, 3am our time to go out on the Louisiana swamp lands and see some gators. Shout out swamp people Sean's favorite show aside from storage wars. We had an entertaining captain who mumbled a lot like Adam Sadler from waterboy, "you can do it" it was epic! We saw two 900 pound gators (shout out gaterboys) one that didn't move because "big al" had just consumed a 150 pound pig/ bigger than Cece it was scary! After that we headed to the French quarter where we went to Cafe du Monde and had Beingnets (fried dough with tons of powder sugar) and coffee, wa wa wee woo it was good. Then we walked around seeing bourbon street, the cathedral, all the street art and the little blue dog exhibit. Cece was the best tour guide! Then we saw the epic cemeteries of New Orleans. After we dined at Mendinas and had the best food I think we have had yet, fried oyster and catfish po boys. Mmmmmm. So much Fried. Food. It was delectable and we finished off with the famous Louisiana snow balls. Not knowing what to expect we thought it was going to be like a 7-11 slurpee and boy... were we wrong the 7-11 Guys, that know Kayla Kretz by name, need to take notes these frozen treats were off the chain. So creamy but icey and sweet gahhh I want more. I left Nola with a new found travel bug to see this world, especially in the grand land of u s of a. Sad we are headed to the end of the trip and feeling dat love.

Until next time followers @slomoneysloprob

Song of the day: who dat saints chant

Nahleannnns

Swamp People!