Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Naturally N'awlins

There are a few things I can say I have done in my life that make zero sense.  Here are just a few examples I can think of:

* We once traveled all the way to Lake Tahoe, spent 2 nights there, and managed to NEVER actually see the LAKE!!!  Is that even possible?  

* I spent 4 years in college at FSU, managed to graduate, and didn't bother to attend my own graduation ceremony. Ain't nobody got time for that. 

* I decided to go to a hot yoga class immediately after spray tanning.  Terrible idea on so many levels! Do I even need to explain?  I wont even mention the spray tan/wax incident... it wasn't pretty.


Perhaps the most devastating of all events occurred a few weeks ago while we visited New Orleans once again.  You see... we got lucky- it happened to be the annual tomato festival that weekend !!  Hooray for tomatoes!

The tomato fest even lasts two days

this is serious



So we went to the "hyped-up" tomato festival in the French quarter.  We saw all the fresh farm stands, listened to the awesome live music, posed in front of fake tomatoes, saw the tomato queens, and watched a parade honoring the wonderful tomato.

Tomato queen and bloody mary queen


You know what we forgot to do?  Ummmm  we totally forgot to TASTE the darn famous New Orleans creole tomato.

Yep.  Tomato Fail

Oh well

I will put it on the list

Truthfully, we had no idea there was a dumb tomato fest that weekend anyways.  None of us particularly care for tomatoes enough to want to taste one on the street.

What we were really there for was to visit with our friends (Slice and Josh) as well as see a few relatives that live there (Brooke and Ian).

So I made a homemade picture frame


Yeah I actually spent precious time making this

I carried this on the plane, into the hotel, and all around new Orleans.  I even had offers from people on the street who wanted to buy it!  Well, I guess it was only one offer... from a hot dog vendor... but an offer is still an offer. 

Nonetheless, New Orleans proved to be just another crazy, wild, unpredictable weekend, that our friend Slices mom (who we call Big Slice) would refer to as "Naturally N'awlins". 


I never quite did figure out what that term meant.. but for us it turned into this:


Moving furniture


Ian and Ryan picking up free furniture


Getting kissed by strangers

Who is this guy?  Where did he come from?  Why is he kissing me?

Moving more furniture

Two men and a Truck

More kissing

PDA is okay if it is in a frame

A little bit of this


The frame brings out the inner freaks


Extra long straws should not go in the nose

and a little bit of that

Showing their best tomato pose


Brooke and Me


3D frame

Naturally N'awlins



Free fancy dinner at Besh steak from the casino to us



Brooke and Ian.  They had no idea we were about to drink their entire wine cellar



New Orleans 
NOLA 
The big easy
Naturally N'awlins

However you wanna say it, its always a hoot down there.  

I probably don't need to tell you that.  

I wonder what happened to that stupid frame?




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