Leaving New Orleans.

Leaving New Orleans today. Still is my favorite city in the states. While I was packing up the room troy took the kids to breakfast, because lets face it its easier to pack sans kids! Apparently the hostess who has been visiting with the kids all weekend decided they behaved so well that they should get a treat. She took them to the Hilton Pantry and told them they could each pick a treat......

Yep, London picked his favorite thing...Tomato soup. :D The hostess got a big kick out of that.

Also on the drive home we stopped the Tiger Stop to see tony. He seemed to have been upgraded in his living quarters since last time we saw him.

And found an opinionated house near by. 

And the of course we hit up the huge Buccee's to fill up.

Reminiscing of roadlife! And NOLA zoo day.

Tonight we went out for dinner with a crew while in New Orleans for a quick job. Meeting a new roadwife and chatting with her made me really miss our roadlife.  I shared this blog with her and looked back at all our great moments. I had forgotten some already. And I noticed that I haven't continued with this blog much. After noticing how much I have all ready forgotten I decided to kick it back into gear. Unfortunately we didn't get a group picture at dinner but I did take the kids to the zoo today so I will share those.

Some of our favorite creatures--

Yes it has TWO HEADS!!!!! Yes it's REAL AND ALIVE!!!

BABY FLAMINGOS!

Unfortunately but luckily it rained, no it downpoured, on us while there. Unlucky because we weren't prepared. But roadwives are used to that so we improvise! One "poncho" coming up..... (Yes it's a garbage bag lol) I made a "hooded cape" for my backpack and me and london just danced in the rain. 

The luckily it rained part is because the "monkey hill" was soaking wet and made for an awesome mud slide!

We went to an amazing museum yesterday so I'll add those also! (But predate them) 

Happy Easter!

London got a nice basket from the Easter bunny full of gifts!  (electric toothbrushes for his tooth and it entertains him, a bubble gun, ball, basket, eggs with cheerios inside them, reuseable snack bags, bouncing balloon and a bib clip I made, and a pair of PJs that he is wearing)

We started a family tradition of wooden easter eggs. We will make one every year and save them with our names and date on the bottom.....

Meet up with Steph and Kaisen!

I got to meet another JM lady today! Funny thing is that she is from IL also but is vacationing down here with her family. So we met here instead! LOL We hit up Slice for dinner, Cafe Du Monde for desert and then walked around the French Quarter.

Music Together class

London and I take Music Together Classes every tue. This is some of the other parents/children (there are more normally). And some shots of play with instruments time!

Crawfish Boil take two---New Orelans style

So after lastnights spicy, more difficult style we thought we would have the locals show us there way. MUCH bigger pots was the main difference, and outside so we could breathe.

Crawfish Boil---Yankee style

I should start of by explain what Yankee style means. Well all of us from "up North" have never tried to do a crawfish boil before. This is normally done outside in a 10 gallon container......we now know thats for good reason! We did it inside with two 1.5 gallon containers! Why do they do it outside---because the spices are so strong they make you cough and eyes burn (yes even us who have been in India already were surprised by that!
So you get the crawfish live so they taste better-----well some can apparently get out of the bag even before you get them home...And someone at Troy's work said you needed 10lbs per PERSON (since you only eat the tails that sound fine to us). But the place we went to go get them at sold only 27 or 45 lb bags. So we got the 27lb one.... (we ended up eating MAYBE 1/3 this bag!)Even after we get them up to the room we had some fighters in the group! (never leave your crawling infant on the floor with the fighting crawfish!)This is what the boil looks like in little pots.
So you pull the tail off the crawfish, suck the head juice out, then peel the tail for the meat. So here is Ben and I sucking the heads...

Sofia's Birthday

One of my friend's daughter, Sofia, had her third b-day party today. And she had a pony! I real-life pony---I couldn't believe it!!! So London got his first pony ride today and his face painted :)

Erica, Sofia, nice pony walker lady and Clyde (the pony)

BAGELS!

Since our parents/children playdate got canceled due to rain on wed we got together today. Here is my fav picture of the day..... Gabriel, London and Rocco all eating their bagels (ok roco dropped his and is now eating a ball but it was still cute!).

Louisiana's Children Museum Part 2 (rest of the museum)

After the Jazz party we checked out the rest of the museum.
He was OUT when we left, but he wouldn't let go of his new egg music shaker thing! LOL

Prius!

So something about driving a Prius hybrid car that gave the the feeling of shopping at whole foods.....oh yes I did feel a touch of the trendy hippy chic! LOL I would love to see the look on the oil refinery people's faces when troy goes to work in a hybrid!